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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...

Laugh and the world laughs with you

  Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...

Love is an irresistible desire

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

Carry the battle to them

  Harry S Truman Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. --Harry S Truman I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. --Frank Zappa Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. --Henry Ford Indecision may or may not be my problem. --Jimmy Buffett Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. --Thomas Jefferson If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. --Dick Cavett I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937 READ MORE Check out Lemp...

When you play, play hard...

  Theodore Roosevelt When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a ste...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness...

  Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. --Peter Ustinov Nothing endures but personal qualities. --Walt Whitman Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. --Thomas Jefferson Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --Isaac Asimov Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. --Clare Booth Luce We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe C...

10 quotes for today - 23 January 2019

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  - Robert Louis Stevenson  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.  - George Bernard Shaw  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  - Thomas Jefferson Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  - Socrates  Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  - Benjamin Franklin  Happiness depends upon ourselves.  - Aristotle Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.  - Charles de Montesquieu  Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  - Jules Renard However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results...