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Great Leaders
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. -- Colin Powell
Breakthroughs
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. -- Thomas Friedman
Trickery
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat. -- Bob Uecker
Happy April Fools Day
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. -- Thomas Shadwell A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for ...
Pride in One's Self
I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing. -- Allen West
Bad Reviews
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it. -- Liberace
Contrary of Christ
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place. -- ...
Revenge
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? -- William Shakespeare
Women
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. -- Bill Cosby
Mistakes
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes. and Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. -- Ross Perot
Perspective
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -- Harry S. Truman
Most Recognized
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. -- Muhammad Ali
A Socialist Ages
He who is not a socialist at 19, has no heart. He who is still a socialist at 30, has no brain. -- Otto von Bismarck
Wondering Why
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? -- Richard Dawkins
Righting Wrongs
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. -- Jerry Garcia
Budget Pain
We must now move from saving billions to saving trillions. -- U.S. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)
Lasting Democracy
A democracy will continue to exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. -- Mark Twain
Law and Plunder
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder. -- Frédéric Bastiat
Outrageous Claims #1
If you ask the people in here now to raise their hands for those who are against abortion, 99% of all of the white people in here gonna raise their hands that they’re against abortion. On the other hand, 99% of the whites that are sitting in here now, if they’re ...
On Intellectuals and Policy
Crime rates have soared as the theories of criminologists were put into practice; educational test scores have plummeted as new educational theories were tried. Indeed, no small part of the intellectual’s achievement has been in keeping empirical verification ...
War
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- George S. Patton
Unlimited Power
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. -- John Adams
Tax Cuts
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. -- John F. Kennedy
Man's Basic Vice
Rationality is man’s basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but ...
Life Planning
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. -- Jim Rohn