When the eagles are silent

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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

I would rather be accused of...

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. - William Shakespeare Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, the...

We can't all be heroes

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. - Norman Vincent Peale In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

The beginning of knowledge

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin READ MORE

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