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| 3006 | Jul 5 2007, 07:59 PM Post #41 |
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Ok sunshine, I just happen to be a collector of quotes if you want more yell softly so here they come; A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Man is what he believes. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. Jewish Proverb Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. We can learn even from our enemies. Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. The basis of a democratic state is liberty. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! Only the educated are free. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ) Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. par·a·site; Biology. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host. One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return. If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. |
 
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| Duke | Jul 19 2007, 11:12 AM Post #42 |
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“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.” – John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States |
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| Condor | Jul 19 2007, 09:59 PM Post #43 |
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The more I meet people, the better I like my cats. |
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| Duke | Jul 20 2007, 12:40 PM Post #44 |
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Sunshine, This will look familiar to you, I borrowed it from you. "If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan |
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| Sunshine | Jul 20 2007, 01:52 PM Post #45 |
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| Duke | Jul 20 2007, 02:46 PM Post #46 |
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"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." -- President John F. Kennedy, from a speech, Oct. 27, 1963 “The truth is, politics and morality are inseparable." – President Ronald Reagan Over time and growth I became a moral/social and fiscal conservative, I now understand that fiscally if we have great wealth far above our wants and needs and do not have the moral character to spend it wisely, then it will be squandered on immoral things and outright waste. -Duke A man or country that puts money/the fiscal matters ahead of character and morality are in error from the onset. -Duke |
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| Sunshine | Jul 26 2007, 10:58 AM Post #47 |
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This quote was sent to me and I just had to share it. "To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all." |
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| Duke | Jul 26 2007, 11:12 AM Post #48 |
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"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand." -- John Adams, June 1776 ( He later became one of our presidents) |
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| greatwhiteelkhunter | Jul 26 2007, 05:10 PM Post #49 |
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Rope, Tree, journalist some assembly required |
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| greatwhiteelkhunter | Jul 26 2007, 05:10 PM Post #50 |
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You make a living by what you get and a life by what you give. Winston Churchill |
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| greatwhiteelkhunter | Jul 26 2007, 05:12 PM Post #51 |
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This is an almost everyday statement from me to some of the Young Marines i have. Who we are never changes, what we are never stops changing. |
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| greatwhiteelkhunter | Jul 26 2007, 05:14 PM Post #52 |
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." “Adversity does not build charter…. It reveals it!” A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. "You know it's going to be a bad day when your four-year-old announces that it's almost impossible to flush a grapefruit." |
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| Sunshine | Sep 30 2007, 12:33 AM Post #53 |
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I don't know who wrote this but I love it. Freedom isn't free, its paid for by the blood, sweat and courage of our Military Members and the tears of the ones that love them. |
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| Condor | Sep 30 2007, 01:33 AM Post #54 |
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More than military are paying the price for freedom. The United States sends more than one kind of Army into the world to serve our interest. Believe me, when I was opening those potentially anthrax laden mail bags at my last assignment, I felt like I was serving our nations interest. |
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| legitlinda | Sep 30 2007, 10:50 AM Post #55 |
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Contrarianism is creativity for the untalented.....Dennis Miller on O'Reilly's show |
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| Toothless Dawg | Sep 30 2007, 01:03 PM Post #56 |
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"You move, I've got a biohazard on my hands" ... Spoken by homeowner upon finding a burglar in his house and confronting him with his .357 and just prior to his 'armed' neighbors coming to assist. |
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| Duke | Oct 2 2007, 09:47 AM Post #57 |
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No one is listening until you make a mistake. Ninety one percent of lawyers give the others a bad name. Time is what keeps everything from happening ALL at once. If at first you don't succeed, you shouldn't try sky diving. |
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