“Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all!”

- Unknown

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

- Don Marquis

“Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.”

- Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard

“The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid.”

- Steve Allen

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.”

- Ephesians 4:32

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.”

- Stephen Swid

“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”

- Anthony Trollope

“If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”

- Unknown

“Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.”

- Lane Olinghouse

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

- Oscar Wilde

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

- Mother Teresa

“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.”

- Joey Adams

“When we are planning for posterity; we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

- Thomas Paine

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”

- Lou Holtz

“Almost every life history contains a painful betrayal - the turning of one's own back on one's own self.”

- Dr. Mardy Grothe

“Belief always precedes action.”

- James Allen

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;

be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

- W. Clement Stone

“If you can, have faith; all things are possible to him who believes.”

- Mark 9:23

“If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”

- Mark Twain

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

- Thomas Hardy

“Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.”

- Susanne K. Langer

“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

- John W. Gardner

“If everybody's responsible, nobody is.”

- Paul Greenberg

“It is better to learn what is probable about important matters than to be certain about trivial ones.”

- Ian Stevenson

“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”

- Bear Bryant

“Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once.”

- Stephanie Luetkehans

“If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.”

- Jack Adams

“Any fool can read the rule book. It takes a manager to know when to make exceptions to the rule book.”

- H. A. Gratner

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“Life is a test. It is only a test. If this were your actual life, you would be given better instructions.”

- Unknown

“It is strange how often we are offended by not being offered something that we do not really want.”

- Eric Hoffer

“Never cut what you can untie.”

- Joseph Joubert

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”

- Amos Tversky

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.”

- Unknown

“No one has ever drowned in sweat.”

- Lou Holtz

“If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”

- Chinese Proverb

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”

- Cherokee Proverb

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

- Joseph Brodsky

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear.”

- Psalm 46:1-2

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

- Winston Churchill

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“To forgive a single, horrible offense is easier in some ways than forgiving over and over again... If one expects mercy from God, one must continually offer mercy to others. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.”

- C. S. Lewis

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“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

- Roy L. Smith

“Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.”

- Robert Anthony

“Due to recent cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice.”

- Unknown

"The key is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen R. Covey

“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.”

- Proverb 20:4

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

- Marcel Proust

“Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.”

- Alexandre Dumas

“Never answer an anonymous letter.”

- Yogi Berra

“There are two kinds of people in the world; those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Go ahead, then, have it your way’.”

- C. S. Lewis

“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”

- Native American Indian Proverb

“If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”

- Linus Pauling

“The things that count most in life are usually the things that cannot be counted.”

- Bernard Meltzer

“What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.”

- Yiddish Proverb

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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“A handout to the rich is called a bailout. A bailout for everyone else is called a handout.”

- Leonard Roy Frank

“There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.”

- Charles Osgood

“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.”

- Julian Morel

“The "tale" of one's life is very marvelous. The teaching that has enabled one, through God's grace, to teach others! How untrue any biography even an autobiography of any human being must be! How much there is which can never be told except to God, but on which all that is really life has depended.”

- Elizabeth M. Sewell

“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.

- Proverbs 16:9

“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”

- Robert Browning

“Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way.”

- Will & Ariel Durant

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart? What jailor so inexorable as one's self?”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.”

- David B. Coblitz

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

- Vaclav Havel

“You can't motivate a team or a group. You have to motivate an individual.”

- Red Auerbach

“Have you found, or is it peculiar to me, that it is much easier to pray for others than for oneself? Doubtless because every return to one's own situation involves action; or to speak more plainly, obedience. That appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace the cross and the crown in one.”

- C. S. Lewis

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“There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.”

- John Dewey

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

- Winston Churchill

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.”

- John Bunyan

“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.”

- Lou Holtz

“You need to be fair to everybody but that does not mean that you treat everybody the same.”

- George Welsh

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”

- Phyllis Diller

“You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”

- Doug Floyd

“Let your yes be yes and your no be no.”

- Matthew 5:37

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”

- Mario Puzo

“Media - the plural of mediocre.”

- Rene Saguisag

“Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

- Frank Wedekind

“Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

- Don Marquis

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

James Dobson

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

- Albert Einstein

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

- Henry Boye

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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

- Thomas Sowell

“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”

- Max Lerner

“Most of us can read the writing on the walls; we just assume it's addressed to somebody else.”

- Unknown

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”

- Chinese Proverb

“It’s not what I say that matters. It’s what you hear.”

- James Crupi

“A habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.”

- Frank A. Clark

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”

- Matthew 6:27

“Bad administration can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.”

- Adlai Stevenson

“Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear.”

- Joseph Joubert

“The trouble with half-truths is that people tend to believe the wrong half.”

- Unknown

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly defined vision of failure.”

- Michael Siegel

“The great use for life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

- William James

“Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.”

- Unknown

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

- William Arthur Ward

“Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left.”

- Malay Proverb

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“The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.”

- Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant

“A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.”

- James Reston

“One holds his job by knowing how. One becomes boss by knowing why.”

- Perry Tanksley

“A little too late, is much too late.”

- German Proverb

“Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.”

- Lido Anthony Iacocca

“The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.”

- Sydney J. Harris

“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”

- Mary Stewart

“Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.”

- Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

“Frequently, success is what people settle for when they can't think of something noble enough to be worth failing at.”

- Laurence Shames

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”

- Proverbs 16:9

“The way fortunes grow is by losing a little on several items while making a lot on a few.”

- Paul A. Samuelson

“My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.”

- Frederick Donald Coggan

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”

- Maya Angelou

“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“English is a funny language. How can a fat chance and a slim chance mean the same thing?”

- Jack Herbert

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“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.”

- William James

“To change and to change for the better are two different things.”

- German Proverb

“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”

- Lou Holtz

“If you ever give something to get something, you're not giving, in the true sense of the word. You're trading!”

- Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones

“Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.”

- Bill Wilson

“The time is always right to do the right thing. The old law of 'an eye for eye' leaves everybody blind.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”

- Will Rogers

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.”

- Persian Proverb

“The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.”

- Frederic Bastiat

“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.”

- Eric Hoffer

“Someday is not a day of the week.”

- Unknown

“I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.”

- D. Dale Gulledge

“The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him.”

- Nahum 1:7

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.”

- French Proverb

“The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.”

- George Dana Boardman

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“Silence is the most intolerable of answers.”

- Mason Cooley

“An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love, but doesn’t know any women.”

- Art Buchwald

“More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - the acid, final test.”

- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

“Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp.”

- Rebazar Tarzs, Tibetan Lama

“You're the same today as you'll be five years from now except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read.”

- Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones

“In his heart, a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”

- Proverbs 16:9

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

- Vince Lombardi

“Hope is the word, which God has written on the brow of every man.”

- Victor Hugo

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

- Pablo Picasso

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”

- C.S. Lewis

“For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this - unless I believe, I will not understand.”

- Anselm of Canterbury

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“Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.”

- Christopher Isherwood

“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”

- Henry Cate, VII

“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.”

- Peter Drucker

“The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.”

- Malcolm Forbes

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.”

- Unknown

“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”

- Bern Williams

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

- Proverbs 16:18

“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”

- Lido Anthony Iacocca

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

- Mark Twain

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“If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”

- Jay Leno

“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.”

- Bertrand de Jouvenel

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

- William Blake

“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words ‘no’ and ‘not’ employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”

- Edmund A. Opitz

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”

- Franklin P. Adams

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“The next time they give you all that civic bullsh!t about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election.”

- George Carlin

“A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.”

- Chinese Proverb

“A politician should have three hats: one for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.”

- Carl Sandburg

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold to the eternal life to which God has called you.”

- 1 Timothy 6:12

“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?”

- Robert Orben

“During war, the laws are silent.”

- Quintus Tullius Cicero

“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.”

- Erich Fromm

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

- Otto von Bismarck

“Old friends, like old wines, don't lose their flavor.”

- Yiddish Proverb

“I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.”

- Billy Graham

“Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that 'the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science.' Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.”

- Fredrich August von Hayek

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

- Groucho Marx

“Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

- Theophile Gautier

“Terrorism is the war of the poor.

War is the terrorism of the rich.”

- Leon Uris

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.”

- Alexandre Dumas

“Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.”

- English Proverb

“It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.”

- Ecclesiastes 5:5

“People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.”

- Lido Anthony Iacocca

“We are what we pretend to be.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”

- Rollo May

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”

- Ralph Hodgson

“A lot has been said about politicians; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.”

- Eric Idle

“Cash register honesty is easier than being honest with yourself, because at least you know the rules.”

- Unknown

“Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.”

- Herman Hesse

“Before you speak, listen.

Before you write, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you invest, investigate.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save.

Before you die, give.”

- William Arthur Ward

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“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”

- Louis Kronenberger

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”

- Franklin P. Jones

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

- Lou Holtz

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.”

- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]

“Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.”

- Milton Friedman

“When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?”

- Robin Williams

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

- Blaise Pascal

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”

- Franklin P. Adams

“There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.”

- Russian Proverb

“So teach us to number our days so that we may grow in wisdom.”

- Psalm 90:12

“I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.”

- Elayne Boosler

“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely:

(1) the example of weak and unworthy authority;

(2) longstanding custom;

(3) the feeling of the ignorant crowd; and

(4) the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”

- Roger Bacon

“To change masters is not to be free.”

- Jose Marti

“To be kissed by a fool is stupid; to be fooled by a kiss is worse.”

- Ambrose Redmoon

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS - “Food For Weekend Thought” // 2008-10-03

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“The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

- H. L. Menken

“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.”

- Sydney J. Harris

“Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?”

- Unknown

“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”

- Ann Landers

“Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.”

- Richard Pascale

“When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.”

- Otto von Bismarck

“Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time, casting all your worries upon Him for He cares for you.”

- I Peter 5:6-7

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world knew the motives behind them.”

- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.”

- Cardinal Francis J. Spellman

“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”

- Marshall McLuhan

“Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“The most mortal enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.”

- Sir Thomas Browne

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“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.”

- Everett Dirksen

“You can never get enough of what you don't really need.”

- Eric Hoffer

“It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.”

- Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

- H. L. Mencken

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied often to prayer.”

- Mark Twain

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

- Martin Luther King

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”

- Harold S. Geneen

“In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.”

- Dr. Edward Hallowell

“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

- Genesis 4:9

“Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.”

- Peter Cochrane

“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”

- Lou Holtz

“He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.”

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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“If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.”

- Siberian Proverb

“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”

- Sydney J. Harris

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”

Chinese Proverb

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

- Charlotte P. Gillman

“The value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician's promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it.”

- Sir William Rees-Mogg

“Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.”

- Yahia Lababidi

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

- Proverbs 16:18

“Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.”

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“You have to choose as a voter between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Those who enter to buy, support me.

Those who come to flatter, please me.

Those who complain teach me how I may please others so that more will come.

Only those hurt me who are displeased but do not complain.

They refuse me permission to correct my errors so that I may improve my service.”

- Marshall Field

“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces.”

- Judith Viorst

“If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function, it must have dissent.”

- Henry Steele Commager

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.   Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another – their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”

- Ayn Rand

“Treat the media as you would any other watchdog. Stay calm. Be friendly. Let them sniff your hand - and never turn your back.”

- Zack Burnett

“Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Remember that it's all small stuff.”

- Anthony Robbins

“Self-pity and gratitude are mortal enemies. Where one exists the other cannot. Since both are highly contagious, individuals must choose gratitude before becoming too thankless to do otherwise.”

- Mike Adams

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

(selected, assembled & distributed weekly by R. Varga / Johns Creek GA)

“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

- Ben Franklin

“Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.”

- James Boren

“The 6 Hour Rule works in all aspects of life… If you will dedicate but one hour per day, six days per week, every week, you can accomplish almost anything, be it getting in shape, learning a new skill, creating a dream, even rebuilding a broken relationship.”

- Unknown

 “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

- Mark Twain

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

- George Orwell

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

- Ray Bradbury

“The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.”

- Milton Berle

“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.”

- David Edwards

“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”

- 1 Corinthians 10:13

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”

- Mae West

“Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.”

- Robert J. Kibbee

“Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.”

- Charlton Heston

“Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.”

- Alexander Woollcott

“In a democracy, every player in the political system is held accountable by someone else. The media also need a check and a balance. If the media think it's unfair that there's someone "driving up their negatives" and damaging their credibility, they ought to realize they also live in that democracy. Get used to it.”

- Brent Bozell

21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

By Brian Tracy

1.       Dream Big Dreams! (Have a Vision)

2.       Develop a Clear Sense of Direction (Set Written Goals)

3.       See Yourself As Self-Employed (accept responsibility)

4.       Do What You Love To Do (Intersection of Natural Talents and Passion)

5.       Commit to Excellence (Top 10% of Your Field)

6.       Develop a Workaholic Mentality (40 hrs Is Not Enough)

7.       Dedicate Yourself to Lifelong Learning

8.       Pay Yourself First (Save 10% Off The Top)

9.       Learn Every Detail of Your Business

10.   Dedicate Yourself to Serving Others

11.   Be Impeccably Honest With Yourself and Others

12.   Set Priorities On Your Activities and Concentrate Single-Mindedly On One Thing At a Time

13.   Develop a Reputation for Speed and Dependability

14.   Be Prepared To Climb From Peak To Peak In Your Life and In Your Career

15.   Practice Self-Discipline In All Things

16.   Unlock Your Inborn Creativity

17.   Get Around The Right People

18.   Take Excellent Care of Your Physical Health

19.   Be Decisive and Action Oriented

20.   Never Consider the Possibility of Failure

21.  Back Everything You Do With The Twin Qualities of Persistence and Determination

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“If I had six hours to fell a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening my axe.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“If you've been in the game for 30 minutes, and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.”

- Warren E. Buffet

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.”

- Thomas Merton

“It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.”

- Molly Ivins

“A man stands tallest when he is on his knees praying.”

- Unknown

“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.”

- Robert Half

“If God is your co-pilot, switch seats!”

- Unknown

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

- Abba Eban

“It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.”

- Shirley MacLaine

“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you'.”

- Hebrews 13:5

“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“To teach is to learn twice.”

- Joseph Joubert

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

- Ed Dussault

“Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.”

- 'O'Neill'

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

- Robert Frost

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“Baseball is what we were; football is what we have become.”

- Mary McGrory (Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post)

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.”

- Knute Rockne (Legendary Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach)

“College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“It’s kind of hard for alumni to rally around a math class.”

- Paul "Bear" Bryant (legendary University of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach)

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”

- Eugene J. McCarthy (former U.S. Congressman and unsuccessful Presidential candidate)

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

- Bill Shankly

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”

- Erma Bombeck

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

- Vince Lombardi (legendary Green Bay Packer head coach)

“He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.”

- Bobby Bowden (Florida State University Seminole head coach and NCAA all-time leader in wins)

“Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.”

- Darrell Royal (renowned University of Texas head coach)

“Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

- George F. Will (Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post)

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

- Lou Holtz (former Arkansas, Notre Dame & University of South Carolina head coach and popular tv commentator)

“My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.”

- E.J. Holub (former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker)

“I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.”

- Dick Butkus (celebrated Chicago Bears linebacker)

“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

- Joe Theismann (former Washington Redskins quarterback)

“When you win, nothing hurts.”

- Joe Namath (legendary University of Alabama Crimson Tide & NY Jet quarterback)

“I’m not allowed to comment on lousy referees.”

- Jim Finks (former GM of Minnesota Vikings, when asked after a loss what he thought of the officiating)

“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”

- Luke Salisbury

“Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.”

- Don Shula (former Miami Dolphins head coach)

“In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.”

- Wally Butts (former University of Georgia Bull Dawgs head coach)

“We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.”

- John McKay (former University of Southern California Trojans head coach)

“Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.”

- Ralph ‘Shug’ Jordan (former Auburn University War Eagles head coach)

“Do not gloat over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

- Micah 7:8

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS - “Food For Weekend Thought” // 2008-08-22

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“What one decision would you make if you knew that you could not fail?”

- Dink Aboudid

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

- James Arthur Baldwin

“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”

- A. E. Housman

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“So why can't I get a student discount on my tuition?”

- Lisa Fletcher

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

- Albert Einstein

“The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”

- Sir George Jessel

“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

- Jeremiah 29:11

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

- Alexander Pope

“A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.”

- John Stuart Mill

“I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one.  I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.”

- Elayne Boosler

“Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson

“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it’s written on.”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”

- Dan Quayle

“True gratitude consists in thanking God for everything when you’ve got everything.”

- O.A. Battista

“The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions.  The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's":  1. fighting, 2. fleeing, 3. feeding, and 4. mating.”

- Psychology Professor in a Neuropsychiatry Intro Course

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

- Archibald McLeish

“Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.”

- Brigid Brophy

“He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses much more; he who loses faith loses all.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”

- Henny Youngman

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

- Sydney Smith

“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”

- Fran Lebowitz

“I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.”

- Alexandre Dumas, père

“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”

- Eric Hoffer

“Committee: The unwilling, selected from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.”

- Margaret Thatcher

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

- James Arthur Baldwin

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.”

- William Arthur Ward

“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.”

- Maureen Dowd

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

- Psalm 46:10

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.”

- Randy Pausch

“In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow.”

- Anne Hunninghake

“If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.”

- Daniel Webster

“Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”

- Arthur Freed

“God is not a cosmic bellboy.”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.”

- Ambrose Bierce

“Seeking to know is only too often learning to doubt.”

- Antionette du Liger de la Garde Deshoulieres

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”

- Thomas Paine

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

- I Corinthians 13:13

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

- Henry Ford

“Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.”

- Unknown

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

- John Wesley

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.”

- Henry Ford

“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.”

- Jose Bergamin

“There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.”

- Henry Kissinger

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

- Paul Gauguin

“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

- Bertrand Russell

“Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

- Colin Powell

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?”

- William Arthur Ward

“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”

- Eric Hoffer

“Grace is sufficient to enable us to be accounted entirely and completely righteous in God’s sight.”

- Martin Luther

“Courtesy is cheap to provide, and it pays great dividends.”

- S. Truett Cathy

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice.”

- Simone Weil

“When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other.”

- Ecclesiastes 7:14

“It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have it.”

- Edwin Way Teale

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

- Will Rogers

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

- Edward Stanley

“We need more plumbers and electricians than we need poets but we need poets, too. From what I read in newspapers and magazines, there are more bad poets than bad electricians and plumbers. Maybe poets ought to be licensed.”

- Andy Rooney

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

- Jean Kerr

“For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.”

- Clarence E. Hodges

“A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.”

- Hungarian Proverb

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a very small hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose.”

- Winston Churchill

“When you cannot get to sleep, talk to the Shepherd, instead of counting sheep.”

- Unknown

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

- Oscar Wilde

“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

- Antonio Smith

“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.”

- Ecclesiastes 11:4

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

- Pablo Picasso

“What was the best thing before sliced bread?”

- George Carlin

“The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him, and exalt a man without inflating him.”

- Charles Hodge

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, to be under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.”

- Matthew Henry

“Weary the path that does not challenge.”

- Hosea Ballou

“The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.”

- Zechariah Chaffee, Jr.

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”

- Michael Levine

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“The simplest toy, which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

- Sam Levenson

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

- Albert Einstein

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.”

- Helen Keller

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

- Peter F. Drucker

“If you think advertising doesn't work, consider the millions of Americans who now think that yogurt tastes good.”

- Joe L. Whitley

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

- Warren Buffett

“I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.”

- Clint Eastwood

“We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.”

- Lou Erickson

“Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,

So is a contentious man to kindle strife.”

- Proverbs 26:21

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

- Oscar Wilde

“There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.”

- Larry Wright

“The ego is a self-justifying historian, which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.”

- Anthony G. Greenwald

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”

- Dennis Wholey

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support.”

- John Buchan

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grants a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

- James Madison

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

- Robert Frost

“Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

- Oscar Wilde

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”

- Thurgood Marshall

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”

- Thomas Sowell

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

- Jules Renard

“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

“A tree is recognized by its fruit.”

- Matthew 12:33

“You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.”

- Jean Kerr

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness; not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”

- William Faulkner

“Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.”

- Austin O'Malley

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'.”

- Marilyn vos Savant

“When the people find they can vote themselves money,

that will herald the end of the republic.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“If you let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism’.”

- Patrick J. Buchanan

“The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

- H.L. Mencken

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

- John F. Kennedy

“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.”

- Jim Rohn

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”

- Proverbs 23:7

“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in Hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”

- Butch Hancock

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

- Maureen Dowd

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”

- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

- William J. Clinton

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

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“Advances are made by answering questions.

Discoveries are made by questioning answers.”

- Bernhard Haisch

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”

- William Hazlitt

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

- George Carlin

“There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.”

- Claude-Fredric Bastiat

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”

- John F. Kennedy

“I quote others only the better to express myself.”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”

- William Arthur Ward

“Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?”

- George Carlin

“What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?”

- James 2:14

“It’s better to build boys than to mend men.”

- S. Truett Cathy

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.

Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

- Lao-Tzu

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.”

- Albert Gray

“Do pediatricians play miniature golf on Wednesdays?”

- George Carlin

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.”

- Eric Hoffer

Weekly Wisdom to Provoke Thought and Reflection

Attribution: Sselected, assembled & distributed weekly by R. Varga / Johns Creek GA

“To know and not to do is not to know.”

- Harvey Mackay

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”

- George Washington

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”

- Burt Bacharach

“There are two primary choices in life -

to accept conditions as they exist, or

accept the responsibility for changing them.”

- Denis Waitley

“Remember change and change for the better are often two different things.”

- German Proverb

“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

- Hebrews 11:6

“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”

- G. Gordon Liddy

“It was like a flying saucer landed. That's what the sixties were like. Everybody heard about it, but only a few really saw it.”

- Bob Dylan

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been".

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“How do you know where you’re going,

When you don't know where you've been?”

- 3 Doors Down

“Four steps to achievement:

    Plan purposefully

    Prepare prayerfully

    Proceed positively

    Pursue persistently.

- William Arthur Ward