RockCity
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Message Posted: May 24, 2013 6:26:45 AM
A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.
-- George Patton
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 24, 2013 5:30:40 AM
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 5:13:43 PM
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
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rjojo40AL
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Alabama
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 1:00:40 PM
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars!
- Elbert Hubbard
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 8:59:21 AM
“A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.”
Anonymous
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 8:30:50 AM
50 common misquotations
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John...
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Chicago
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 6:33:44 AM
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
- Abraham Lincoln
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RockCity
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Denver
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 3:59:28 AM
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-- Michelangelo
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 23, 2013 1:11:32 AM
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles Kettering
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 22, 2013 4:16:59 PM
"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
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 22, 2013 6:55:05 AM
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Albert Einstein
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 22, 2013 5:43:40 AM
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -- a leader says, 'Let's go!
-- E. M. Kelly
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 22, 2013 2:55:14 AM
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
Laurence J. Peter
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 4:15:03 PM
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 7:08:31 AM
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forget their use.
Galileo Galilei
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John...
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Chicago
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 6:44:54 AM
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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John...
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Chicago
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 6:44:08 AM
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
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six_ball_man
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Rochester
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 6:26:07 AM
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966
typical politco
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 5:53:12 AM
“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 21, 2013 1:05:21 AM
“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
Thomas A. Edison
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 5:01:12 PM
"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
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teafortwo
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Washington
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 4:25:19 PM
"Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 1:29:44 PM
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
~ Fred Allen
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 9:25:00 AM
I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 7:44:50 AM
You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.
-- Charles Barkley
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 20, 2013 1:17:55 AM
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
Frank Herbert
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six_ball_man
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Rochester
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Message Posted: May 19, 2013 1:43:59 PM
When does life begin?
Not until I've had my morning coffee
-promo for 2013 season of Morgan Freeman's show "Through The Wormhole"
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 19, 2013 8:48:44 AM
"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 19, 2013 7:12:32 AM
“He who angers you conquers you.”
Elizabeth Kenny
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 19, 2013 5:19:17 AM
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
-- Cicero
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 18, 2013 9:11:54 PM
"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
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teafortwo
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Washington
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Message Posted: May 18, 2013 6:56:31 PM
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
~ Adolf Hitler
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John...
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Chicago
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Message Posted: May 18, 2013 6:36:48 AM
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
- Abraham Lincoln
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 18, 2013 5:21:57 AM
“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
Colin Powell
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 18, 2013 2:55:43 AM
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
-- Cicero
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utvolsfan007
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Virginia
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 5:13:07 PM
We are surprised at our own versatility in
being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 4:49:07 PM
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan
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rjojo40AL
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Alabama
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 1:27:27 PM
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
? Albert Camus
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jdhelm
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Iowa
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 6:57:23 AM
'i found out about it on the news, like most everyone else' - bho
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 5:19:47 AM
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
-- George Orwell
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 4:32:37 AM
“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
Catherine the Great
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rjojo40AL
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Alabama
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Message Posted: May 17, 2013 1:08:30 AM
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
? Dr. Seuss
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 16, 2013 6:08:52 PM
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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RockCity
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Message Posted: May 16, 2013 7:50:13 AM
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
-- Japanese proverb
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 16, 2013 7:22:33 AM
"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course."
-Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012)
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 16, 2013 5:47:00 AM
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.”
Alexander Graham Bell
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Baron62nd
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 15, 2013 4:32:49 PM
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan
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bpasta
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Ohio
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Message Posted: May 15, 2013 9:49:30 AM
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, Not by the disire to beat others
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CookieAcct
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London
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Message Posted: May 15, 2013 8:57:57 AM
“I don’t believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.”
Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian (1927– )
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Isaihi
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Illinois
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Message Posted: May 15, 2013 5:13:05 AM
“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen
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