Daily Wit and Wisdom

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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci

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I would rather live a day as a lion than live 100 years as a sheep.
Larry Scott

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The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.-- Sir Richard Francis Burton

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America would be better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president. The Wall Street robber barons would be jailed, young people could afford college and find jobs and six million homeowners wouldn't face foreclosure. We need to change our course. Please sign our petition to draft Hillary Clinton for president.

-- Robocall from the Draft Hillary Movement

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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”

-- T.S. Eliot

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The sewers have backed up. You come home and the crapp is all the way to the ceiling. You have two choices. Raise the ceiling or pump the crapp out.

Voter quote on current Congress

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles beard

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J Robert Oppenheimer

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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H G Wells

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

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Daily Wit and Wisdom

Just a little background on this quote for those of you who have never been been in the military. All officers, enlisted soldiers in grade E-4(this can be a specialist E-4 or a corporal E-4, and all non-commisioned officers receive at least one Annual Efficiency Report from their next higher supervisor. Naturally, these reports have changed grammatically over the years and are much more detailed and complicated than they were back in the Civil War days. I stumbled across this one many years ago and it was written by a Union First Lieutenant who was rating a subordinate Second Lieutenant.

The report consisted of only five words, but they were definitely succinct, to the point, and gave a very clear picture of the officer's character and overall value:

"A knave despised by all."