Say WHAT?!?!: P, Q, and R
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| "Paradise is exactly like where you are
right now, only much, much better." |
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www.linkshare.com |
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| "A patient mind is the best remedy for
trouble." |
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- Plautus, Roman playwright (254-184 BC).
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| "A man who knows when to be quiet is an
asset to himself." |
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| "My God-given talent is my ability to
stick with it longer than anybody else." |
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- Hershel Walker, former professional football star.
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| "The perception of a problem is always
relative. Your headache feels terrific to the druggist." |
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- Ramona E. F. Arnett, President of Ramona Enterprises, January 1986
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| "A mistake is simply another way of
doing things." |
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- Katherine Graham, Publisher, The Washington Post (Jan 1988).
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| "If you do it right 51 percent of the
time you will end up a hero." |
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- Alfred P. Sloam, (1875 - 1966), Former President and Chairman of
General Motors.
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| "Most of the arguments to which I am a
party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that
neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about." |
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- Robert Benchley, Benchley — or Else! (1947).
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| "It is better to be looked over than
overlooked." |
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| "It is a common saying in the ghettos
of Brooklyn that if a boy is bad he joins a game; if he is good he
plays basketball." |
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| "There is nothing final about a
mistake, except its being taken as final." |
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- Phyllis Bottome, Strange Fruit (1928)
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| "How many things are looked upon as
quite impossible until they have been actually effected." |
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- Pliny the Elder, Roman writer of natural history (23 - 79).
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| "It is understanding that gives us an
ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's
viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out
our differences." |
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| "When a dog bites a man that is not
news but when a man bites a dog that is news." |
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| "Get your facts first, and then you can
distort them as you please." |
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| "It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one had data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to
suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." |
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| "Better a diamond with flaws than a
pebble without." |
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- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551 - c. 479 BC), Analects.
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| "Any sufficiently advanced technology
is virtually indistinguishable from magic." |
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| "Never fear shadows. It only
means there is a light shining ahead." |
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| "If my theory of relativity is proven
successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare
that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue,
France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am
a Jew." |
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| "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent
one." |
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| "Do not worry about your troubles in mathematics. I can assure
you that mine are still greater." |
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| "How can we know the dancer from the
dance?" |
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| "If I do seem unduly clear to you, you
must have misunderstood what I said." |
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| "Maybe this world is another planet's
hell." |
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| "Illegal aliens have always been a
problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." |
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| "Outside of the killings, Washington
has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." |
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- Marion Barry, former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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| "The eye sees only what the mind is
prepared to comprehend." |
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- Henri-Louis Bergson, French philosopher (1859 - 1941)
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Amazon.com |
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| "I have a simple philosophy. Fill
what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." |
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, in Peter Russell and Leonard Ross, The
Best (1974).
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| "My advice to you is not to inquire why
or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate —
that's my philosophy." |
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| "We all need to believe in what we are
doing." |
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- Allan D. Gilmour, Executive Vice President, Ford Motor Company (February
1988).
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| "Get mad, then get over it." |
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| "Don't find fault. Find remedy!" |
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick;
you will go far." |
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- Theodore Roosevelt, address (1901).
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| "In skating over thin ice, our safety
is in our speed." |
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| "Never offend people with style when
you can offend them with substance." |
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| "You can get much further with a kind
word and a gun, than a kind word alone." |
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| "We meet this evening, not in sorrow,
but in gladness of heart." |
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- Abraham Lincoln in his last public address (11 April 1865).
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| "Nothing is at last sacred but the
integrity of your own mind" |
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One of my favorite games. |
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| "The police are not here to create
disorder; they're here to preserve disorder." |
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- Former Mayor of Chicago Daly (I've been too lazy to figure out
what his name is. Please
tell me!)
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The
History Channel makes learning history interesting by
telling you the stories behind the people. |
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| "I
hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and
as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." |
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- Thomas Jefferson, American President and statesman.
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| "Laws are like cobwebs, which may
catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." |
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- Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish poet and satirist, Thoughts on
Various Subjects.
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| "Peace if possible, Justice at any
rate" |
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| "I prefer the most unjust peace to the
justest war ever waged." |
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus
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| "I had a dream that I would be here
this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought
it would be the front door key." |
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| "Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
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- Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
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| "I have found power in the mysteries of
thought." |
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| "There is one thing stronger than all
the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has
come." |
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| "You only have power over people as
long as you don't take everything away from them. But when
you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power —
he's
free again." |
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- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-winning author.
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| "Duct tape is like The Force. It has a
light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe
together..." |
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| "Pinky, once I take over the world,
remind me to politically snub you." |
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- The Brain, from WB's Pinky & The Brain
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| "In sum, do not insult me with the
beheadings, finger-choppings, or the lung- deflations you plan for my
works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make
into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go
gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
All you umpires,
back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my
game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At
sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it
the old try.
And no one can stop me. Not even you."
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| "I do not like broccoli. And I haven't
liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And
I'm the President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any
more broccoli." |
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www.emode.com |
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| "It's tough to make predictions,
especially about the future." |
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| "Well, hopefully I won't end up doing
Colt .45 commercials." |
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- Samuel L. Jackson on life after being
Jedi Master Mace Windu, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Companies will contribute a small
percentage of your spending to a college fund for your
child. |
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| "All things are ready, if our minds be
so." |
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The Handspring Treo appears to be the next
evolutionary step in cell-phone/PDA/e-mail technology. |
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| "Progress depends upon the belief that
things can always be better." |
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| "The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with
strong and active faith." |
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| "I have called this principle, by which
each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural
Selection" |
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| "Technological progress has merely
provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." |
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| "Many a man had taken the first step.
With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your
first." |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Writer
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Well,
if you've got a computer, is there really a better way to
use it? |
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| "Service without reward is
punishment." |
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- George Herbert, English clergyman and poet (1593 - 1633).
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| "Maybe this world is another planet's
hell." |
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| "Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just." |
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| "Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many
that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give
it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment.
For even the very wise cannot see all ends." |
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| "People who treat other people as less
than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the
waters comes floating back to them, poisoned." |
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- James Mark Baldwin, American psychologist (1861 - 1934)
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| "If you're going through hell, keep
going." |
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www.expedia.com
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| "A witty saying proves nothing." |
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| "A book of quotations... can never be
complete." |
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| "Repartee is what you wish you'd
said." |
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| "What is lofty can be said in any
language, and what is mean should be said in none." |
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| "What is written without effort is in
general read without pleasure." |
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| "Misquotations are the only quotations
that are never misquoted." |
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| "An unconditional right to say what one
pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum
guarantee of the First Amendment." |
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- Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice (1837 - 1871), NY Times Co v
Sullivan (1964).
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| "A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air." |
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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One of my favorite games. |
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| "He who will not reason, is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave." |
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| "The conclusive proof of my reasoning
is that I shall cut anyone who argues further into dog meat." |
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- Sir Geoffrey d'Tourneville
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www.AandE.com
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| "If
there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him." |
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- Voltaire, 18th
century philosopher.
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| "As long as there are exams, there will
be prayer in schools." |
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| "It doesn't really matter where I go
(Heaven or Hell). I'll have plenty of friends in both
places." |
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- Leslie Nielsen in Clarence Darrow - A One Man Show.
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| "Always say some prayers at night
because it might turn out that there is a God." |
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| "God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh." |
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| "Christianity is more than a crutch. It
is a life-support system." |
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| "When I told the people of Northern
Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and
said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the
Protestants in whom you don't believe?" |
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| "I went through more screening to get
into the seminary than to get a security clearance in the
military." |
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| "The only thing we don't have a god for
is premature ejaculation - but I hear that's coming quickly." |
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| "To insist on a spiritual practice that
served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you
have crossed the river." |
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| "It's like deja vu all over
again." |
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| "Practice is everything." |
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- Diogenes Laertius, Greek historian and writer (c. 200 - 250).
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| "Respect the man and he will do the
more." |
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| "People are more easily led than
driven." |
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- David Harold Fink, Release from Nervous Tension (1943)
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| "Never esteem anything as of advantage
to you that will make you break your word or lose your
self-respect." |
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- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, (121 - 181 AD)
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| "Nobody on the face of the earth can
make you feel inferior without your permission." |
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| "Never assume stupidity in your enemies
or intelligence in your allies." |
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| "I have got you together to hear what I
have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main
matter — for that I have determined for myself." |
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- Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
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| "Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." |
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- Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, paying tribute
to the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain (20 August 1940).
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| "We would rather die on our feet than
live on our knees." |
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address (1939)
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www.discovery.com |
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| "People need responsibility. They
resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it." |
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| "There are plenty of recommendations on
how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come
down to this: Deny your responsibility." |
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- Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic fund-raiser (30 September 1967).
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| "I love deadlines. I especially
like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." |
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Protect
your PC today, and beware which attachments you open. |
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| "A thing is right when it tends to
preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
It is wrong when it tends otherwise." |
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| "It is never right to compromise with
dishonesty." |
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| "It is one thing to show a man that he
is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth." |
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| "And in the end, through the long ages
of our quest for light, it will be found that truth is still mightier
than the sword." |
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| "While one person feels inferior, the
other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." |
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