Waxman
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"The other day I was so desperate for a beer I snuck into a stadium and ate the dirt on the ground underneath the bleachers."
Homer Simpson.
Homer Simpson.
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Bubbles Galore
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)
Dr. Seuss
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)
MikeV
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. unk.
Bill, Its been a while since I lurked around here but this is a great thread:
Government is not reason, it is no eloquence, it is force - George Washington
"Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of mindless sports-fan behavior,
ratgagging gluttony for political office and ideology without ideas....
Democrats are also the party of government activism, the party that says
government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." P.J. O'Rourke (Excerpt from 1991 Book, "Parliament of Whores")
A reasonable man accommodates himself to the world. An unreasonable man
accommodates the world to himself. Progress depends upon unreasonable men. George Bernard Shaw
This quote is from Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Here we are - Cebo
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis De Tocqueville.
Government is not reason, it is no eloquence, it is force - George Washington
"Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of mindless sports-fan behavior,
ratgagging gluttony for political office and ideology without ideas....
Democrats are also the party of government activism, the party that says
government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." P.J. O'Rourke (Excerpt from 1991 Book, "Parliament of Whores")
A reasonable man accommodates himself to the world. An unreasonable man
accommodates the world to himself. Progress depends upon unreasonable men. George Bernard Shaw
This quote is from Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Here we are - Cebo
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis De Tocqueville.
"The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any Reward." John Manyard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." - - Julius Caesar
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H.L. Mencken
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." - - Julius Caesar
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H.L. Mencken
Waxman
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"We should remember from time to time to live life as a human being rather than a human doing."
~Eckhart Tolle
~Eckhart Tolle
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. This is a quote from Gerald Ford commonly misattributed to the great Thomas Jefferson and sometime Goldwater and RR.
Waxman
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Edison Knew Many Things
"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."
~Thomas Edison~
"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."
~Thomas Edison~
pitzerwm
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The shortest distance between two points is ... under construction. - Noelie Altito
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
pitzerwm
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continuously fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
pitzerwm
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[FONT="]"Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn[/FONT]
pitzerwm
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Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.Rule 1:Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
pitzerwm
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Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Rule 6: If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
pitzerwm
Active member
Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. - Margaret Peters
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. - Margaret Peters
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Dean Taylor
Dean Taylor, CATEC.com
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy! -Ben Franklin
pitzerwm
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Self development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Waxman
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Positivity
Whether you think something is possible or impossible; either way, you'll be right.~
~~~Wayne Dyer
Whether you think something is possible or impossible; either way, you'll be right.~
~~~Wayne Dyer
Waxman
Super Moderator
"The quickest way to turn a problem into an opportunity is to do something about it."
Ralph Marston
Ralph Marston
pitzerwm
Active member
Wisdom from Harvey Mackay
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many people have thrown up their hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]In business, prospects may seem darkest when really they are about to turn. A little more perseverance, a little more effort, and what seemed a hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many people have thrown up their hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]In business, prospects may seem darkest when really they are about to turn. A little more perseverance, a little more effort, and what seemed a hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.[/FONT]
