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"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." -- Plato

Even a fool is though wise if he keeps slient. proverds

"Day after day, alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer.
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eys in his head see the world spinning round.
Well on the way, head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud.
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appearss to make
And he never seems to notice.
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round.
And nobody seems to like him,
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings.
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round.
He never listens to them,
He knows that they’re the fools
They don’t like him. The fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round."

--The Fool on the Hill--Magical Mystery Tour--The Beatles--Lennon/McCartney--1967

"A closed mouth gathers no foot."

"If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drilling rights on his head."
An obscureTexas legislator.

"Your problem is you always want to eat dessert first." Me, to my 18 year old son.

"Don't Fieros Catch Fire?"

"That'll buff right out"

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1987 Fiero SE

"We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient."

--Dalai Lama

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force.”
-– George Washington

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
-– Thomas Jefferson

“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants…God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such rebellion; what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms!”
-– Thomas Jefferson

In order to cause the enemy to come to their own volition, extend some [apparent] profit, In order to prevent the enemy from coming forth show them [the potential] harm. -Sun Tzu , The Art Of War

More Sun Tzu here

Some quotes from friends. "Your body is writing checks your ego can't cash ron" "I'm gonna kick your ass later" "INsufficient funds!"

"I smoke occasionally... Every occasion I get!"

"I'd turn her down!"

Err, I suppose you had to be there for all of them.

"Pick me! Pick me!"

The morality of a nation is best judged by the entertainment it chooses.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know piece"

Jimi Hendrix

Some quotes from two of my favorite founders

"I am really mortified to be told that, in the United
States of America, a fact like this can become a subject
of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence
against religion; that a question about the sale of a
book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is
this then our freedom of religion? And are we to have a
censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold,
and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize
religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to
be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or
stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall
a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as
the rule for what we are to read, and what we must
believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question
whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy
against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of
truth and reason."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father,
drafted the Declaration of Independence,
3rd US President
Source: Letter, 19 April 1814

Believing with you that religion is a matter which
lies solely between man and his God, I contemplate
with solemn reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their legislature
should "make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
thus building a wall of separation between
Church and State.
Thomas Jefferson

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been
hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the
despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection
to his own"
Thomas Jefferson, 1814

May [the Declaration of Independence] be to the world,
what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to
others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing
men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance
and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves,
and to assume the blessings and security of
self-government. That form which we have substituted,
restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of
reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened,
or opening, to the rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson

The day will come when the mystical generation of
Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the
womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of
the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
But we may hope that the dawn of reason and
freedom of thought in these United States will do
away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most
venerated Reformer of human errors.
Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at
the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of Almighty God eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man.
Thomas Jefferson

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson

Parties
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided
into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust
the people, and wish to draw all powers from them
into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who
identify themselves with the people, have confidence
in them, cherish and consider them as the most
honest and safe, although not the most wise
depositary of the public interests. In every country
these two parties exist, and in every one where they
are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare
themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles,
Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans
and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by
whatever name you please, they are the same
parties still and pursue the same object. The last
one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one
expressing the essence of all."
Thomas Jefferson

In questions of power, then, let no more be said of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief
by the chains of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will
they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty,
lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance
without character is the path of destruction.
Thomas Jefferson

Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of
the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such
acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me
no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods,
or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious
opinions, any more than our opinions in physics
or geometry.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one
redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson

For more go here... http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeffcont.htm

"I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. G*dd***t, I'm a billionaire."
-- Howard Hughes

"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."
-- Howard Hughes

"You can always put on more clothes but you can only get so naked." -My girlfriend

Be the Ball.
-CaddyShack

I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in
proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that
will not work, I will find the way that will work
–Thomas Edison

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
- Robert Frost

When I fall on my face from time to time,
I try not to worry because I'm still going forward!
- Linda Aucoin

"What's the difference between a miscarriage and a bowling ball? ... One of them you can spread on toast."

-- My older brother, when he was drunk one night, circa 1971.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin (love that one so much its in my sig)

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize whow close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

"Cowards did not establish this nation, cowards can not preserve it." - unknown

"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." - Ayn Rand

"The government was set to protect man from criminals and the Constitution was written to protect man from government." - Ayn Rand

"The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.' " - Harry Browne

"A Constitutional Republic must protect the rights of all citizens -- rich or poor -- equally. Taxing one to provide for another makes a slave out of the first and a slave master of the second." - Christian H. F. Riley

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- Liberty in our lifetime: http://www.freestateproject.org -
- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin - How Big Do You Want Your TV to Be? http://www.LumenLab.com/-

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" - Elbert Hubard, 1923

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"The best thing I can do to help the poor is to not become one of them." -one of my co-workers

"What the hell where you thinking!"
My father, 1977-present
" If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in a mirror. Cause I bet that would really freak you out"
Deep Thoughts SNL

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I believe in keeping the world safe for our children, but not our childrens children, becouse I dont think kids should be having sex.

"Of course I'm a duck! I have all the duck bits! The bill. The webbed feet. The cute tail. The sailor hat." - Quack, from "Peep and the Big, Wide World"

"Hey! Alfred! I'm flying underground!"
"Actually, Master Larry, you're boring."
"Well, gee, Alfred, I know that I'm not the wittiest of cucumbers...."
"No, not that kind of boring. It's a drilling machine." - from "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed"

"What, Kirk, you think I'm stupid?"
"No, I don't think you're stupid, Mr. Krakow. I just think that your behavior is arrested...."
"I NEVER BEEN ARRESTED IN ALL MY LIFE!" - "A Piece of the Action," Star Trek, TOS

"What a depressingly stupid robot." - Marvin, the Paranoid Android, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to bring you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't." - Marvin, again.

"Did I say something wrong? Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway, so I don't even know why I bother to say it. Oh, God, I'm so depressed." - Marvin, too.

Just trying to keep it light.

Liberalism is part of a Religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable. Ann Coulter

"Don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things!"

James

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company

-- Scott Adams (American cartoonist, b.1957)

"The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion." -Johnny English

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Why, I oughta....

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

--John F. Kennedy

"Do not eat the big white mint." -My Uncle

"Live your life without regrets for if you don't you'll regret your life!" ~ me

"I'll never regret the time I spent with you, it's the time I spent without you I'll regret" ~ not sure where I read it but I liked it!

If You can't be Right, Be Wrong Louder than everybody else.

quote Originally posted by Dough19: "You can always put on more clothes but you can only get so naked." -My girlfriend

She wasn't trying to make a case for Winter being better (Or more tolerable) than Summer was she?

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Failing to prepare - Is preparing to fail....

life sucks then you meet bono! > me

From Ronald Reagan:-

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." - Ronald Reagan

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

"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

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - 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

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."- Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

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

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me . even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us is capable of governing someone else?"

And from me:-

There is no easy way to push your limits.

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Dave E

www.ltlfrari.com
Visit the NC Fieros website at TarheelFieros.org

Time flys like an arrow but Fruit Flies like a banana!

"I saw my life flash before my eyes and now I'm depressed."