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Today's quote

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your governmant when it deserves it.
    --Mark Twain

Today's aphorists quote

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
    --Chinese Proverb

Today's Bushism

When you have your own money, it means you've got more money to spend.
    --George W. Bush

Today's Jazz quote

Never play a thing the same way twice.
    --Louis Armstrong

Today's quote on war

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
    --Winston Churchill

Today's funny quote

"I went into a general store, and they wouldn't sell me anything specific".
    --Steven Wright

Today's philosophers quote

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
    --Plato

Today's witty quote

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
    --Mark Twain

Random quotes for Monday, October 6, 2008

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All honor to Jefferson -- to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.
    --Abraham Lincoln 

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can affort to let alone.
    --Henry David Thoreau 

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
    --T. S. Eliot 

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
    --Voltaire 

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
    --Cesar Chavez 

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
    --Miguel de Cervantes 

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
    --Mark Twain 

People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
    --P. J. O'Rourke 

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
    --Mahatma Gandhi 

The farther you go, the less you know.
    --Lao Tsu 

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