All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke - The enhanced role of money in the re-election process has produced an atmosphere conducive to pervasive institutionalized corruption. Al Gore, 2006 Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Sun Tzu In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, An yet nothing can resist it. ~ Lao Tzu A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. - Lao Tzu
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. Ayn Rand The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aynrand138254.html#1CEi0MjjvepxidRD.99
Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. -Sun Tzu, the Art of War “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless” ~Mother Theresa My conscience hath a thousand several tongues And every tongue brings in a several tale And every tale condemns me for a villain. - William Shakespeare
“People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true."
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. - Lao Tzu 99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. Isaac Asimov, 1980 An for king jr day. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it BECAUSE it is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
ether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot” -»Dr Seuss “I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” ~Audrey Hepburn “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.” -Winston Churchill “If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.” ~Lisa Marie Presley
believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see. - my grandfather. use that head for something other than a hat rack. - my mother. women have the uncanny ability to say things that are both subtle and deep. - unknown. when you combine love and skill you can expect a miracle. - unknown.
Good ones Leopold. ------- Love is like fire. It is beautiful to have and warm when you are near it. But the moment you get to close it burns you -unk
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa
Here is a quote for Catholics, "Kill them all and let god sort them out" @ R1D2, Mother Teresa was right. Every Piece I've had started with a smile and ended with a grin.
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts. A gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come. - Mary Anne Radmacher --------------------------------- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
