Quotes and Conundrums


"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington


"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money."

Senator Everett Dirksen


"We've become a culture of propaganda, and a culture of lying, and a culture of official statements which even the officials don't believe."

David Gelernter


"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Mark Twain


"No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


"Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

Dan Moon


"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make other people happy."

Robert Ingersoll



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