03-28-2008, 12:28 PM
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"Did you hear about the fan violence in Italy at soccer games? The fan violence in Italy at soccer games has gotten
so bad, the teams are forced to play in empty stadiums. Empty stadiums! And so now, it's just like United States soccer." -Dave Letterman |
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03-29-2008, 12:23 PM
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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. --------------- Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race. --------------- If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. --------------- Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. --------------- In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. (Explaining why he would not run for reelection.) --------------- Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. |
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03-30-2008, 04:29 AM
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. --------------- As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. --------------- Conscience is a man's compass. --------------- Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. --------------- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. --------------- Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. --------------- Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. --------------- How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? --------------- I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. --------------- I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true. --------------- I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. |
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03-31-2008, 09:39 PM
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? --------------- At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. --------------- Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. --------------- Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. --------------- Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. --------------- Everything is self-evident. --------------- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. --------------- I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. --------------- I think; therefore I am. --------------- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. --------------- Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. --------------- It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. --------------- Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. |
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03-31-2008, 11:14 PM
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"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." 
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