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My Favorite Quotes

"The very ink of which all history is written is merely fluid predjudice"  Mark Twain

 

About democracy "... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." John Adams

 

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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"Once you accept the Universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. "  (Video game proverb)

 

Government is not the reason; it is not eloquent; it is force,  Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a dangerous master." - George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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"Politics is nothing more than the art of seduction in another guise." Benjamin Franklin

 

Abraham Lincoln, speaking about the theater:

"A farse or comedy is best played (on stage), a tradegy is best read at home."

 

One of Jerry Lewis’ famous quotes: The doc told me I had a dual personality, then he lays an $82 bill on me. So I give him forty-one bucks and say "Get the other forty-one bucks from the other guy."

 

"The true test of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein

 

"We should measure the welfare's success by how many leave welfare, not by how many are added." - Ronald Reagan

 

"The strongest steel has to go through the hottest fire."  Richard Nixon

 

 

 

 

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
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