Quotes to Consider
If a machine can do it, let it.
If you want to be treated equal, you must act equal.
The greatest detriment to human advancement is politics & politicians.
Referees are disgruntled player wannabees that can't.
In the universe, size is a form of function, not importance.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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The treacherous divides the good and gets them to fight against themselves while the bad rob them blind.
Joel McCrea character Chuck Conner in the movie Saddle Tramp
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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It is easier to predict the properties of the early universe than it is to predict the [Earth's], weather.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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When you do something greedily, you might make a lot of money, but that in no way makes you happy. When you do something well, and with care, when you hit the pillow at night, you can say, 'At least I did it right'.
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One day you're a hero, the next day you're a bum.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in
houses just as big as they can pay for.
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting
people up.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a Prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her, but once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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.
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Here’s the transcript of Paul Harvey’s “If I were the Devil” speech that was broadcast on April 3, 1965:
If I were the Devil, I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States.
I’d submit the churches first. I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is “square.” And the old I would teach to pray after me, “Our Father, which art in Washington…”
And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the Devil, I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings, I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.
If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions, just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug-sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
Within the decade, I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography, soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, then from the houses of Congress.
And in His own Churches, I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and church money.
If I were the Devil, I’d make the symbol of Easter, an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle.
If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who want it until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious.
And wouldn’t you bet I couldn’t get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich.
I would caution against extremes and hard work and patriotism and moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure.
In other words, if I were the Devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing.
Paul Harvey, Good Day.
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"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the
flow that has passed will never pass again." Franklin Graham was
speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville , Florida , when he
said America will not come back. He wrote:
The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of
Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of
the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled
and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.
A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, homosexuals, government workers,
union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood ,
uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically
unemployed, illegal aliens and other "fellow travelers" have ended
Norman Rockwell's America .
You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual
acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get
back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take
zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs
(Republicans In Name Only) to right this ship and restore our beloved
country to its former status.
People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will
probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself
with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture,
our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.
The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back
yard, the American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky's
"Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod
along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the
strings on their beige puppet and have brought us Act 2 of the New
World Order.
The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has
been told. Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that
this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and
political correctness.."
It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get
back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take
zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs
(Republicans In Name Only) to right this ship and restore our beloved
country to its former status.
Franklin Graham