GREAT QUOTES / 6

I hope you've been enjoying my collection of quotes. Usually they reflect some point or aspect of wisdom. However occasionally a quote becomes available that also makes the point on the opposite side of the wisdom coin. Such is the case of the first quote of this group...........Scott


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GEORGE BUSH - See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler - Albert Einstein


"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." - John Tudor


Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers


If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. - Kurt Vonnegut


Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -- Edmund Burke


"That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world." - John Adams


"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954


An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. - Psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, who lived through four concentration camps in World War II


I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws andupon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it - Judge Learned Hand, 1944


"Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth." - Will Rogers


The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world - Albert Camus


"I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we too should have rights." - Dr. Seuss


Everybody's an authority in a free land. - Husker Du


Journalism: a profession whose business is to explain to others what it really does not understand. - Lord Northcliffe


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein


"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself" - William Shakespere


"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."-- Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day