The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah
August 2nd
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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August 3rd
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry S. Truman
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August 4th
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
-- Pearl Bailey
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
-- George Burns (1896-1996),
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
August 10th
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
-- Dave Barry
August 11th
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
-- Dave Barry
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
August 14th
They tell me I have got a mind of my own, but sometimes it's like my mind itself has its own mind.
-- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]
August 15th
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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August 16th
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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August 17th
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
-- Clarence Darrow
August 18th
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
-- Mark Twain
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