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Familiarity
breeds contempt-and children.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Be respectful to superiors... if you have any.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. -- Mark Twain
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.--Lincoln
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.-- H.L.Mencken
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his
limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds
him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts,
poetry cleanses.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
First
Amendment
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the
sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry
too.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be
limited without being lost.
-- Thomas Jefferson
And I think it was me that said:
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full... what the hell is it half full of?
What better way to get the point across to our children that killing is wrong than by showing them executed convicts?
The best is the enemy of the good.
-- Night Hawke
"If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
-- Dorothy Parker
Travel
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
--Ghengis Khan
Privacy and the 4th Amendment
"The right to be left alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people."-- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928).
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.--Groucho Marx
" "--Harpo Marx
Punctuality
If you're there before it's over, you're on time.--
James J. Walker
Death
Penalty
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to
put the worst to death.-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Opinion
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
-- William Hazlitt
I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name. Every
new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
-Thomas Carlyle
Education "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without
losing your temper."-- Robert Frost
-- George M. Cohan
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Couldn't have said it better myself....
and you can quote me on that
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Favorite Quotes
Scattered throughout insurrection you'll find a few of these quotes with my very favorites highlighted:
from
the national archives
I
never did give anybody hell I just told the truth and it felt like
hell.
- Harry S. Truman
Things
Politic
The very definition of democracy precludes the existence of "big
brother." -- said to me by someone who actually believed it.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.-- James Russell Lowell
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.--Voltaire
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A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. -- J. F. Clarke
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. --Henry Louis Mencken
Poetry
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Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. -- Mikhail Dudan
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
-- Marianne Moore -
The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.-- Christopher Morley
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
-- Sylvia Plath -
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.-- Carl Sandburg
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.-- Wallace Stevens
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
-- Walt Whitman
Love
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
-- Lord Byron -
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.-- Benjamin Franklin
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A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor -
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. -- Maxim Gorky
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. -- John Le Carre
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If love and sex are such natural phenomenon how come there are so many books on how to? -- Bette Middler
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The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. -- Vi Putnam
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier
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To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior."
-- Rita Rudner -
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
-- James Thurber -
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. -- H.G. Wells
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One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry. -- Oscar Wilde
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -- Thornton Wilder
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness. -- Kahlil Gibran
Debate
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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. -- Kin Hubbard
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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.-- Ed Howe
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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. -- Dudley Field Malone
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The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Great brains discuss ideas, average brains discuss events while poor brains discuss people.-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Religion
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Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I. -- Alfred Kreymborg
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Men willingly believe what they wish. -- Julius Ceasar
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While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them. -- Gene Spafford
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"The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church."
- Ferdinand Magellan -
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. -- George W. Foote
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
-- Thomas Huxley -
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.--Henry Louis Mencken
First
Amendment
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no
confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. Only the suppressed word is dangerous. As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and
other institutions, I am free to print anything.-- Beaumarchais The internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is
the proudest that man can enjoy. -- Benjamin Disraeli Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of
all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily
defeat us. -- William O. Douglas
-- James Robinson
-- Ludwig Börne
-- John Perry Barlow
Humor
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Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
-- Aristotle -
We must laugh at a man to avoid crying for him.-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Humor is just another defence against the universe.-- Mel Brooks
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.-- Robertson Davies
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A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it.-- Don Herold
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.-- Wiliam Shakespeare - King Lear
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We are not amused! -- Queen Victoria
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Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.-- Mark Van Doren -
Even the gods love jokes.-- Plato
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Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.-- Edmund Gwenn
Vocation
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.-- Laurence Sterne
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work....
I want to achieve it through not dying. --Woody Allen
Wisdom
Do or do not. There is no
try. -- Yoda If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. --Hermann Hesse The
artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.--
Delacroix Things
are only impossible until they are not. --Jean Luc Picard There
is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks
himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the
wisest is generally the greatest fool. -Charles Caleb Colton How
much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of
it. -Marcus Aurelius In
the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet
for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
-Lao Tzu The
best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't
do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-Abigail Van Buren The
first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of
civilization. -Sigmund Freud Gravity is a harsh mistress. --
The Tic
"Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival."--Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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If you steal anything from here I will hunt you down and eat you!
When
you sit with a nice girl for two hours, Just be thankful you're not getting all the government you're paying
for.
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you
just sit there." Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can
find a rock.
you think it's only a minute.
But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute,
you think it's two hours.
That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein
--Will Rogers
Authors Unknown
Non-conformists are all alike.
The nice thing about egotists - they don't talk about other people
No sense in being pessimistic; it wouldn't work anyway
If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Stamp out superfluous redundancy
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with
which I will not put.
--Winston Churchill, Sir
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
-- Richard M. Nixon
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. -- Nikita Khrushchev
It's
hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. -- Mae West
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Today, I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. -- Adolf Hitler (Reichstag speech, 1936)
It's best to be wary of those 'employed' by God. -- Night Hawke
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally
I like children. If they're properly cooked
Never give a sucker an even break
...more people are driven insane through religius hysteria than by drinking alcohol
Now don't say you can't swear off drinking, it's easy. I've done it a thousand times
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
(Fields' proposed epitaph:) "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
--W.C. Fields
Science
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: First, people
say it conflicts with the bible. Next they say it had been discovered
before. Lastly, they say they always believed it. -- Jean Louis Aggasiz
Koans
An ancient buddha said, "Mountains are mountains; waters are
waters." These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean
mountains are mountains. -- Dogen
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
-- Japanese Proverb
This table has four legs. A table with a broken leg remains a table.
But a table from which the four legs have been removed becomes only a flat
piece of wood. At what moment did it cease to be a table? When you eat, the meal is yourself.
-- Zen Saying
-- Carlo Suares