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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. ”
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. ”
In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy. ”
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ”
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. ”
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! ”
The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States. ”
Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time. ”
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. ”
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical. ”