Thought for Today

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

~~~~~ David Lloyd George

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"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."

~~~~~ Daniel Webster

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"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."

~~~~~ Alexis de Tocqueville

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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

~~~~~ Robert Fulghum

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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

~~~~~ John Ruskin

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"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."

~~~~~ James Madison

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"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

~~~~~ Herman Kahn

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"As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks."

~~~~~ David Horowitz

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"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."

~~~~~ Aristotle

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"There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle."

~~~~~ Peter Brimelow

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"People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow."

~~~~~ Erma Bombeck

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"The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one."

~~~~~ Lewis Grizzard

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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."

~~~~~ M. Scott Peck

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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."

~~~~~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

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"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

~~~~~ Baruch Spinoza

Thought for Today

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

~~~~~ Freeman Dyson

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"I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds."

~~~~~ Louis Nizer

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"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."

~~~~~ Lao Tzu

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"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."

~~~~~ Robert Moses

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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

~~~~~ John Wayne

Thought for Today

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

~~~~~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Thought for Today

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

~~~~~ Clarence Thomas

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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."

~~~~~ Alexander Hamilton

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"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."

~~~~~ Daniel Webster

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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."

~~~~~ Wilson Mizner

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"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning."

~~~~~ Isaac Asimov

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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

~~~~~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

~~~~~ Booker T. Washington

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"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have."

~~~~~ Owen Wister

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"Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible – every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed."

~~~~~ Col. David Hackworth

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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

~~~~~ Leo Buscaglia