Daily Wit and Wisdom

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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra

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When (men) go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace." --Saint Augustine

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"True Terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The secret is there is no secret

Discipline–my main man. I never go anywhere without it

Dave Draper

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"A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation." - James Freeman Clarke

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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne

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Jack La Lanne: Feats

Age 40 Swam the length of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge underwater with 140 pounds of equipment, including two air tanks...and undisputed world record.
Age 41 Swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco wearing handcuffs.
Age 42 Set a record of 1.033 pushups in 23 minutes on "You Asked For It" TV show with Art Baker.
Age 43 Swam the treacherous Golden Gate Channel, towing a 2500-pound cabin cruiser. This involved fighting the cold, swift ocean currents that made the one-mile swim a six and one half- mile test of strength and endurance.
Age 44 Maneuvered a paddleboard 30 miles, nine and one half-hours non-stop from the Farallon Islands to the San Francisco Shore.
Age 45 Completed 1,000 pushups and 1,000 chin-ups in one hour and twenty-two minutes.
Age 60 Swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
Age 61 Swam the length of the Golden Gate underwater handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 2,000-pound boat against the treacherous tides.
Age 62 Commemorating the "Spirit of '76," swam one mile in Long Beach Harbor, handcuffed, shackled, and towing 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.
Age 65 In Lake Ashinoke, Tokyo, Japan, handcuffed and shackled, towed 65 boats filled with 6,500 pounds of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.
Age 66 In North Miami, Florida, towed 10 boats filled with 77 people for over a mile in less than one hour.
Age 70 Handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 boats with 70 people from Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 � miles.

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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
British explorer & orientalist (1821 - 1890)

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"Liberal - a power worshipper without power." - George Orwell

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Marshall McLuhan

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Bill Chase was for me, a living affirmation of the power of art and optimism over materialism and banality. Dartanyan Brown

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Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook.
-- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook

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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho Marx

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A revelation from this Dem. Governor on why the liberal agenda is being misunderstood by more than half the voters in this country:

"Ours is a complex message. The Tea Party message is pretty easy and simple," Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told Schieffer. "We just don't have it in our make-up, in our DNA, to mislead the public".

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

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