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Monday, November 17, 2003

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist... If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe. Don't let America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism.
—Charlton Heston

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
—Alexander Hamilton

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
—William F. Buckley, Jr.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
—Sophocles

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
—Milton Friedman

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
—Joe Theismann

Little girl, who ever heard of Shakespeare's daughter?
—William Faulkner

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while
—Kin Hubbard

Not all who wander are lost.
—J.R.R. Tolkien

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
—Thomas Jefferson

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Soren Kierkegaard

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
—Anatole France

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
—Jean Kerr

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
—Richard M. Nixon

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes Benz 380SL convertible.
—P.J. O'Rourke

Wesley Clark has a handshake like a woman.
—Presidential candidate Robert Haines

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
—John Stuart Mill

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
—Samuel Johnson

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
—Alfred North Whitehead

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in England without making it unattractive.
—Edmund Wilson

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
—Andrew Jackson

If you want to retire young and retire rich, and you don't have much money, education, or experience, begin using your brain.
—Robert Kiyosaki

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
—Abraham Lincoln

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
—Ronald Reagan

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