No quote today because it was a Dr. Suess quote that I do not agree with.
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OkieScot Wrote:No quote today because it was a Dr. Suess quote that I do not agree with.
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Understood.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
mdawg4x4 Wrote:OkieScot Wrote:No quote today because it was a Dr. Suess quote that I do not agree with.
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Understood.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Being powerful is like being lazy. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Hatcher
The Bush administration tried to bail out stupidity and the Obama administration is trying to stimulate it. Dave Ramsey
The minute you start to talk about what you're going to do if you lose, you have already lost. George Shultz
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey.
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OkieScot Wrote:Being powerful is like being lazy. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Hatcher
This should have been:
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren'.t Magaret Thatcher.
I think I like my version better, sorry for the mix up.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden
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Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Sanskrit proverb
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Hemingway
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do. H.W. Longfellow
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Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. Jules Renard
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Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. Seamus Heaney
This is the last stanza from a poem he wrote titled "Digging." The first stanza is "Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests as snug as a gun. It is a rather strange poem if you ask me.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Giibbon
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. Ossie Davis
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
Truer words were never spoken as we are about to find out.
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Took me a few to get caught up. Thanks again Okie!
Sorry about not being on here as much.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; and working together is success. Henry Ford.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. Benjamin Spock
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OkieScot Wrote:A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. Benjamin Spock
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There is a lot of truth in that, but isn't he the Dr. that wouldn't let us punish our kids with a spankin'? Now look what that got us, in general!
Same guy, I didn't say that I agree with all that he says. I like to listen to everyone and then make up my mind on an issue by issue basis whether I agree with them or not. Sadly there are some people who get it wrong all of the time and those I don't listen to. As you saw a few days ago if I disagree with a quote I do not post it here.
Well it is off to a wedding at the boathouse now.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
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If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton
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"I've had bad luck with both of my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't." Patrick Murray
The human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. Peter De Vries
Here is a quote I have seen on the internet several times lately without crediting the author so I thought I woould give him his due.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. American philosopher George Santayana
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The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. Dale Carnegie
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What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. Mary Pickford
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