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Scott Adams

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 
"to sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men"

Alexander Graham Bell

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

Johannes Kepler

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes


A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Grave Yard Shift & Dead Ringer

These are sayings you hear a lot of but did you know were they originated from?
In the 1800s they were afraid of burying dead people that weren't dead so they tied a string arround there wrists that connected to a bell above the grave were a person from the village had to stay there all night and listen for the bell.



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