What is one of your favorite quotes by a famous person? I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abe Lincoln
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100% of the shots you don't take don't go in. Wayne Gretzky -
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." Earl Nightengale + 5
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" Politicians are like diapers, they need changing often and for the same reasons!" Mark Twain
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius +5
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"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is Hell." General William T. Sherman.
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There cant possibly be a crisis today, my diary is full. (kissinger I believe.)+5 This man is depriving a village of an idiot.(dunno who said that) We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing--it can be a wonderful method of creating the illusion of progress while creating confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." Attributed to Caius Petronius. A roman general,
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I have an angel magnet on my fridge on which are my favorite words Thou Shalt Not Whine I don't know who said it first! :)
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You can lead a horse to water, but when you get him to do a reverse three and half somersault, give me a call.
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Lady says ,,,Sir ! you are drunk !! man replies,,,and madam you are ugly ...but at least i will be sober in the morning ,,,,,Whinston Churchill
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Lady says to a man ,,,If you were my husband Sir ! i would put poison in your coffee,,,man replies ,,,and If i was your husband Madam ! I would drink it ,,,,Winston Churchill again,,,,bit of a lad wasn't `E` hehe
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Everyone has beauty but some are blinded to it by their own shallowness. . He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin . That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche . You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln . A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. Thomas Jefferson
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Another Lincoln quote: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Thomas Jefferson "There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at." Goethe
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and earlt to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" [if only I lived by itLOL!]... Charles Dickens (opening "Oliver Twist") "It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times" - so it continues to be todayLOL!
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds ... Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance"
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