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| Law and Words
One of the problems with law is that it repurposes old terms like "theft", "property", and "trespass" rather than making new ones.
-- Michael Feathers
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| Why We Run
In honor of the victims of yesterday's craven terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon:
"I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and ...
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| On family
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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| Owning the Constitution
We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Income Inequality
There is nothing morally or economically wrong with earned inequality. If someone produces more, he deserves more.
-- Don Watkins
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| You Are Going to Die
You are older at this moment than you’ve ever been before, and it’s the youngest you’re ever going to get. The mortality rate is holding at a scandalous 100 percent. Pretending death can be indefinitely evaded with hot yoga or a gluten-free diet or antioxidants ...
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| Wisdom and Pain
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
-- Robert E. Lee
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| Doing What is Right
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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| Choosing How to be Governed
The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks ...
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| RIP Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
(A bonus quote today, in honor of her passing. Great Britain and the world are a better place today because of Mrs. Thatcher.)
I owe nothing to women’s lib. The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.
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| Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
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| On Giving Up
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
-- Unknown
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| Racism as Collectivism
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted ...
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| Respect for Parents
If I had dared, even once, to address my parents the way I often see children speaking to theirs nowadays, I wouldn't be here to moderate this pithy stream of quotes!
-- Marc Moore
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| A Man's Decision
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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| Offensive vs. Funny
You find *that* offensive?
I find it funny. That's why I'm happier than you.
-- Anonymous
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| Unjust Laws
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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| Setting Wages
I never set the wage scale of any man who works for me. Every man sets his own wage scale, by the sort of service he renders–the quality and the quantity of his service, plus the mental attitude in which he renders it. Understand this truth and you will know ...
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| Jesus, a Man for All Seasons
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. So Jesus says: 'Turn the other face,' ...
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| The Fence
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as ...
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| Character vs. Reputation
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Love Quote 4
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
-- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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| Love Quote 3
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
-- Eric Segal, Love Story
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| Love Quote 2
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
-- Helen Rowland
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| Love Quote 1
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis
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