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“When you’re up against a barrier, clarity is right there on the other side.” By: Gary Michael Durst, Ph.D. (Objective Observer's mentor)

Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy. George W. Bush-1/31/06

If the glove fit it wouldn't have fallen off

“The only “intuitive” interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” By: Bruce Ediger

Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. Ann Coulter

“The hardest thing for a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.” Richard Braunstein

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
Ronald Reagan

"Government cannot make you richer, but it sure can make you poorer." - Chuck Bates

"The government that gives a lot, takes a lot." - David Brownlow

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -
Ronald Reagan

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases." - Hippocrates, Aphorisms

"You can see a lot by just looking." - Yogi Berra

"Who depends on another man's table often dines late." - John Ray

"Other people are not your property." - Roderick T. Long

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." - Judge Learned Hand

"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from." - Thomas Sowell

"I would rather be governed by 2000 people selected at random from the Boston telephone directory, than by the 2000 faculty members at Harvard." - William F. Buckley

"This is supposed to be the land of free enterprise. It seems to be more and more, the land of the government do gooders doing no good!" - Kevin Zahrte

"The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." -Will Rogers

"As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse." - Paul Craig Roberts

"What if you were an idiot, and what if you were a member of Congress?" But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

"If a politician promises to help you by hamstringing your neighbor, it's a pretty good bet he just told your neighbor the same thing about you!" - Dave Dawson

"You can not reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into in the first place." - Jonathan Swift
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Henrik Ibsen:
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

Groucho Marx:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

George Burns:
"Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

Carl Sandberg:
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. By: Simone Weil

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat. By: Will Rogers

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. By: Thomas Jefferson

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. By Vince Lombardi.

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." —Andy Tant

The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. By: Johnny Cash

Limitations? I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. By: Johnny Cash

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. By: Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. By: Bob Dylan

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. By: Daniel Boone

After all, if an x-ray is poor, there is a chance that injuries could go undetected or diseases could go undiagnosed. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. By: Adrienne Rich

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people." - Unknown

Jimmy Buffett :
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

American proverb:
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
By: Mark Twain

I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?
By: Ashleigh Brilliant

People use statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
By: Andrew Lang

Some people are useless on top of the ground; they ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
By: Mark Twain

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
By: George Burns

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"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." By: James Brown

"Always move toward your demons. They take their power from your retreat." By: Thom Rutledge

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." By: Hubert H. Humphrey

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums." By: Stephen Wright

"My school colors were clear. We used to say, "I'm not naked, I'm in the band." By: Stephen Wright

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple". By: Barry Switzer

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public". By: George Jessel

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all". By: Sam Ewing

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read". By: Groucho Marx

“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” -W. C. Fields

France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet paper. By: Billy Wilder

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. By: Abraham Lincoln

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. By: Steven Wright

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. By: Robert Copeland

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. By: Sir Barnett Cocks

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. By:
Martin Mull

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. By: George Bernard Shaw

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. By: Will Rogers

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. By: Bob Wells

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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. By: Judge Charles W. Pickering


There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. By: Edward Abbey


If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. By: W. C. Fields

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. By: Sidney J. Harris

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
By: Elbert Hubbard

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. By: Will Rogers

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. By: Steven Wright

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. By: Alfred Korzybski

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. By: Albert Einstein

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. By: Alan Bennett

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. By: James Brown

"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment." By: Malcolm Hein

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment". By: Willis Player

"I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months". By: W.C. Fields

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure". By: Abraham Lincoln

"I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth on 'em, and they think it's hell." By: Harry Truman

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." By: Mark Twain

"When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler." - Gene Simmons on why he voted for George Bush in 2004.

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." By: Winston Churchill

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
By: Anne Frank

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
By: Abraham Lincoln

"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." By: Confucius

"I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest." By: Steven Pearl

"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid." By: Heinrich Heine


Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- - - Mark Twain

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
- - - Sydney Smith

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
- - - Mark Twain

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doing.--Unknown

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.--Unknown

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
By: Buckminster Fuller

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." By: Plato

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform." By: Susan B. Anthony

"People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half." By: Jane Haddam

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." By: Plato

"Important principles may and must be inflexible." By: Abraham Lincoln

"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg." By: Robert Coles