Showing posts with label Quotable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotable. Show all posts

Sep 17, 2009

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When people cease to believe in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Sep 8, 2009

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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -Ben Franklin

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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Sep 3, 2009

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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill

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"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney

Sep 1, 2009

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity,
and tolerates shoddiness in government because government is an exalted activity,
will have neither good plumbing nor good government.
Neither its pipes nor its promises will hold water.

Aug 27, 2009

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There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year.

History Lesson

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” Cicero, 55 BC

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Those who do not learn the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.

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Insure your success by doing common things uncommonly well.

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Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from their women, a little support and a little freedom.

Aug 19, 2009

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A honeymoon is a short period of doting, between dating and debting.

Aug 13, 2009

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An expert is a person who persuades the government to spend money it doesn’t have, to learn something nobody wants to know.

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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

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About the only consolation the average taxpayer has is that you don’t have to pay taxes on the amount you think you’re worth.

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Today’s opportunity: -
To care enough to dry a tear,
To dare enough to volunteer,
To live that others may be blessed,
To give our talents and our best.

Quotable

from 260 BC,
Tao bears love;
Love bears restraint;
Restraint bears acceptance;
Acceptance bears the World;
All things begin with love and end with restraint, but it is acceptance that brings harmony.

Aug 6, 2009

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Today’s state-of-the-art medical technology makes it almost impossible for your doctor not to find something wrong.

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Talk is the activity of the mouth. Listening is the activity of the heart.

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A man convinced against his will,
is of the same opinion still.