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"tis better than riches to scratch where it itches"
T P Dolly
YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT
DOESN'T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40.
IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE.
-Unknown-
If a
word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
-Unknown-
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
-Unknown-
"Political correctness
is a doctrine, fostered by a
delusional,
illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end."
-Unknown_
"The life of every man is a diary
in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour
is when he compares the volume as it is with what he hoped to make it."
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish dramatist-author (1860-1937).
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every
man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his
right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision
can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
- Thomas Wolfe
The things that will destroy America are
prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,
safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the
get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is
not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo de Vinci
My reading
of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
[S]ir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if
they are such; because
I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no
form of
Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well
administered,
and believe farther that this is likely to be well
administered for a course of
years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done
before it,
when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic
Government, being incapable of any other.
I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be
able to
make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of
men to
have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably
assemble with
those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors
of opinion, their
local interests, and their selfish views. From such an
assembly can a perfect
production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to
find this system
approaching so near to perfection as it does, and I think it
will astonish our
enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our
councils are
confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our
States are on
the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the
purpose of cutting,
one another's throats.
Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no
better, and
because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
And these few precepts in thy memory look thou
character.
Give thy thoughts no tongue,
nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
but do not dull thy palm with entertainment
of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear ’t that th' opposèd may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1:3
The whole problem with the world is that fools and
fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
On Leadership
"In the past a leader was a boss.
Today's leaders must be partners with their people...they no longer can lead
solely based on positional power."
Ken Blanchard - American businessman, and author.
"If you always do what you always did,
you'll always get what you always got."
Unknown
"I can make a brigadier-general in five
minutes, but it is not easy to replace a hundred and ten horses."
Abraham Lincoln
"Leadership is intelligence, credibility,
humanity, courage and discipline."
Sun
Tzu, The Art of War (Strategy)
One should respect
public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of
prison,
but anything
that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russel, The Conquest of
Happiness
On Viet Nam
If you are able,
save for them a place inside of you and one backward glance when you are
leaving,
for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may
not always have.
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war
insane,
take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
Written January 1, 1970 by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
Dak To, South Vietnam
Major O'Donnell was Killed in Action in Cambodia on March 24, 1970.
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