11-30-2007, 05:03 AM
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." ------------------------- "A joke is a very serious thing." ------------------------- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." ------------------------- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ------------------------- "A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." ------------------------- "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." ------------------------- "Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production." ------------------------- "Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack." ------------------------- "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." 
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12-04-2007, 04:11 AM
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"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness." ------------------------- "The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity." ------------------------- "Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be" ------------------------- "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." ------------------------- "Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are." ------------------------- "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak" ------------------------- "No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors." |
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12-06-2007, 02:19 AM
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"To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government." ------------------------- "I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor." ------------------------- "The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity" ------------------------- "No evil can result from its (slavery's) inhibition more pernicious than its toleration" ------------------------- "As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." ------------------------- "Unlike all who have preceded me, the Revolution that gave us existence as one people was achieved at the period of my birth; and whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event, I feel that I belong to a later age and that I may not expect my countrymen to weigh my actions with the same kind and partial hand." ------------------------- "The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies." ------------------------- "On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success." ------------------------- "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." ------------------------- "For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it." ------------------------- "There is a power in public opinion in this country and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
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12-06-2007, 02:17 PM
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"Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state" ------------------------- "A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O." ------------------------- "One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them." ------------------------- "Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair." ------------------------- "I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man - Who could ask for anything more?" |
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12-07-2007, 04:31 AM
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." ------------------------- "American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics." ------------------------- "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." ------------------------- "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." ------------------------- "Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." ------------------------- "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." ------------------------- "Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." ------------------------- "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." ------------------------- "I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system." |
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