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1/3/02
| Stevio
Posted on 01/03/2002 5:33:02 AM PST by stevio
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To: stevio
"When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform."
Senator Roscoe Conkling
To: OWK
"Far better it is to dare the mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899
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01/03/2002 7:43:55 AM PST
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Chapita
To: Cincinatus
"Outside of a dog, a book is mans' best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho
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01/03/2002 7:45:51 AM PST
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E.Allen
To: Hugh Akston
***********""Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." **************************************
That was on Carlos Marcello's office back door on Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana.
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01/03/2002 7:45:55 AM PST
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Chapita
To: mc5cents
Captain McKay: "I'm transferring you to personel."
Harry Callahan: "To personel, that's for assholes."
Captain McKay: "I was in personel for ten years."
Harry Callahan: "Ya."
From "The Enforcer."
To: stevio
My current fave:
"Government big enough to give to the people everything they want is powerful enough to take from the people everything they have."
Unfortunately, I don't know who first said it.
To: stevio
Here are a few of my favorites:
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.
John Wayne
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
And finally,
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.
William Jefferson Clinton
To: Chapita
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" from Marmion [1808], canto VI, introduction, st. 17 - by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
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01/03/2002 7:51:03 AM PST
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Chapita
To: stevio
Here's two that you may find appropriate for the workplace:
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you. PJ O'Rourke
There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
La Rochefoucauld
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posted on
01/03/2002 7:52:00 AM PST
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beckett
To: Chapita
"Live every day as if it were your last - one day you're sure to be right."
Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant
To: stevio
"After God made me, He broke the mold. And then He tried to pretend like it was an accident."
To: OWK
Modesty is for monks; take life in big chunks.
--Lazarus Long
To: stevio
"Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?." Lorraine's father in Back to the Future.
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01/03/2002 7:58:00 AM PST
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1L
To: stevio
Tolerance is the last virtue of a morally bankrupt society. - a great line I stold from some freeper a couple of years ago.
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01/03/2002 7:58:06 AM PST
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joebuck
To: stevio
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown
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01/03/2002 7:58:41 AM PST
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dirtboy
To: stevio
To: centexan
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. , 551?-479? B.C. Confucius
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posted on
01/03/2002 8:03:30 AM PST
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Chapita
To: stevio
"Anything done in moderation shows a lack of interest" -Capt. Tom
To: Chapita
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. --Dale Carnegie
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01/03/2002 8:07:56 AM PST
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Chapita
To: stevio
This might get you into trouble at work!
A Little Story
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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01/03/2002 8:10:40 AM PST
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Chapita
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