GREAT QUOTES / 5
"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process" - Benjamin Harrison (23rd President, 1889-93)
"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"......Thomas Jefferson
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Technology: the knack of so arranging a world that we need not experience it - Max Frisch
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself - Rita Mae Brown
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. - George Bernard Shaw
A corporation cannot be ethical; its only responsibility is to turn a profit - Milton Friedman
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." - Descartes
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. " - Booker T. Washington
HERBERT SPENCER - Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.
A psychotic is someone who just found out what's going on. - William S. Burroughs
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home - David Frost
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. " - Tom Bodett
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. — Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazil
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again, America!...
Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again"
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. - Billie Holliday
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. " - Theodore Roosevelt
"You must live in the present,... there is no other life but this." Henry David Thoreau
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't DO anything about it. -Albert Einstein
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"......Thomas Jefferson
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Technology: the knack of so arranging a world that we need not experience it - Max Frisch
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself - Rita Mae Brown
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. - George Bernard Shaw
A corporation cannot be ethical; its only responsibility is to turn a profit - Milton Friedman
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." - Descartes
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. " - Booker T. Washington
HERBERT SPENCER - Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.
A psychotic is someone who just found out what's going on. - William S. Burroughs
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home - David Frost
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. " - Tom Bodett
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. — Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazil
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again, America!...
Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again"
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. - Billie Holliday
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. " - Theodore Roosevelt
"You must live in the present,... there is no other life but this." Henry David Thoreau
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't DO anything about it. -Albert Einstein
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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