Quote Of The Day
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“Just because someone carries it well, doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy.” - Unknown
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We are all victims of the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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Charles Kettering, the Director of Research at General Motors from 1920–1947, is said to have put it thus: “The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”
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For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. —George Washington
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
--- Ben Franklin
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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“I NEITHER coughed nor felt sick. Instead, a sensation of wellbeing filled me, and I became slightly wired, not the reaction you get from alcohol, but sharper and calmer.”
BBC reporter John Simpson, experiencing a cigar for the first time, Sunday Telegraph, July 1999"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
"Funny how there's never enough time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over." -- Frustrated workers everywhere.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
Receiving their bread from us the people will clearly see that we take the bread from them to give it back to them and they will be only too glad to have it so as it will deliver them from their greatest anxiety and torture -- that of having to decide for themselves. Never was there anything more unbearable to the human race than personal freedom.
Dostoesvsky
The Grand Inquisitor“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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@webmost said:
. Never was there anything more unbearable to the human race than personal freedom.
This is an absolutely true fact that has baffled me for most of my life. I just can't wrap my head around it, yet there it is.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain0 -
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
John Galsworthy"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
“It is a gray day.”
“Yes, but dinna ye see the patch of blue?”
—Scottish Shoemaker"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
Without humour, our lives are so darned mundane.
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2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faithIf it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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“Discipline is the bridge between goals and reality.” -Rodman Lu
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
--Shaw3 -
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
Evelyn Waugh"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5 -
a woman with a spine and common sense:
"I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone but your dishonor will remain."
U.S. Representative Liz Cheney2 -
I would first want to know what exactly she is referring to as indefensible and dishonorable.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
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I believe that would be inciting a crowd to vandalize the Capitol, then doing nothing to stop the riot, watching it on TV, while his closest advisors, friends and family all pleaded with him to do something to reverse the fallout from his speech.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain0 -
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do but won’t get you anywhere. ~unknown
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@Amos_Umwhat said:
I believe that would be inciting a crowd to vandalize the Capitol, then doing nothing to stop the riot, watching it on TV, while his closest advisors, friends and family all pleaded with him to do something to reverse the fallout from his speech.I see, thank you for taking the time to respond.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
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If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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"The size of our egos are matched by the size of our insecurities."
Eddie Money"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
I disagree, may be true for an unhealthy ego but egos are like cars and very useful for getting where you need to go day to day if they are healthy, not so useful if the tires are all flat or the engine is blown.
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"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5 -
"I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars."
Ron White"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis10
