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  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx Our thoughts are free. - Cicero How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers READ MORE

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers, New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930 Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. - Plutarch Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. - John Randolph We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy The sinews of war are infinite money. - Cicero When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. - Albanian Proverb Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arab Proverb BACA LAGI  

  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 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...

  Image: ChatGPT 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 other...

  Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. - Samuel Johnson Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.  - W. C. Fields If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistake...

  Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers MORE... NICE

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? --Rose Kennedy No wise man ever wished to be younger. --Jonathan Swift You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. --Socrates Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. --Anthony Burgess This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. --Will Rogers If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. --Joyce Carol Oates I am not young enough...

  An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. --Will Rogers Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. --Margaret Millar It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. --Homer When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977 A minute's success pays the failure of years. --Robert Browning The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. --Abraham Lincoln Nothing fails like success. --Gerald Nachman The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. --Martina Navratilova When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. --Gracie Allen Check out Mus...

Photo: Facts About Universal Medicine Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

George Burns. Photo: Television Academy Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. - Cicero Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me n...