Quote for Today: September 30, 2007

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Quote for Today: September 29, 2007

Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality.

from: Lost Horizon (1937)

-- High Lama

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Quote for Today: September 28, 2007

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

-- Jim Carrey

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Quote for Today: September 27, 2007

There is no such thing as a collective brain. The man who thinks must think and act on his own.

from: The Fountainhead (1949)

-- Howard Roark

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Quote for Today: September 26, 2007

You know something, if you liberals go on getting your way, we're all going to hear one big loud flush...That's the sound of the USA going down the toilet.

-- Archie Bunker

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Quote for Today: September 25, 2007

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

-- Albert Schweitzer

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Quote for Today: September 24, 2007

No matter who you are or where you live, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can build a good life for yourself and your family.

-- Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Quote for Today: September 23, 2007

I see dead people... Walking around like regular people...They're everywhere.

from: The Sixth Sense (1999)

-- Cole Sear

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Quote for Today: September 22, 2007

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

-- Lord Kelvin

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Quote for Today: September 21, 2007

If we are conquered, all will be enslaved, and the United States will be left, single handed, to guard the rghts of men.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

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Quote for Today: September 20, 2007

After all, everybody only hears what he understands.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Quote for Today: September 19, 2007

Greetings my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

from: Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

-- Criswell

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Quote for Today: September 18, 2007

Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence.

-- Enron Mission Statement

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Quote for Today: September 17, 2007

That's the best place for enemies, high up where you can see them.

from: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)

-- Pancho Villa (When told he has enemies in high places.)

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A Sign of the Times:

The kids have to be coerced into going to school!

Many Chicagoans are losing their homes!

The Mexicans are celebrating Mexican Independence Day!!

Quote for Today: September 16, 2007

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

-- Booker T Washington

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