Daily Wit and Wisdom

[SB Shock]

"The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track." - President Obama

[kcshocker11]

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

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[SB Shock]

“What a great honor. I’ve lived in a lot of towns, but for one to think enough of you to bring you back and put you in the Hall of Fame is really great. The people in Kansas are the best that I’ve ever met.” -- Former WSU Coach Jeffries

[kcshocker11]

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

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[1979Shocker]

We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that's crazy. It's time we stopped it.
Ronald Reagan

[kcshocker11]

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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[kcshocker11]

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

To my friend Melissa RIP, you are truely an angel. :( 8)

[kcshocker11]

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

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[SB Shock]

“To be president! I’m not running to go to Disneyland!” - Herman Cain

[kcshocker11]

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

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[kcshocker11]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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[Ixiah]

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

- Mark Twain

[kcshocker11]

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy

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[kcshocker11]

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[kcshocker11]

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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