TRUE WISDOM # Great Quotes To Remember

Humor, thanks!
5 for you.

'I told you I was ill'

Engraved on Spike Milligans' gravestone...

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
- Voltaire

Thank you all for rating this thread so highly - very inspiring!



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Sometimes I'm inspired, sometimes I'm more inspired.
- Robert Fripp

Why do nice guys always finish last?

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

The greatest pleasure of the wise man is to pretend to be a fool in front of the fool who pretend to be wise.

“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …” Richard Henry Lee

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." 2A

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."- Thomas Jefferson

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense."- John Adams

"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."- George Mason

“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” Richard Henry Lee
American Statesman, 1788

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.”
Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Cartwright, 1824)

'That in you which sees and hears is the Logos of the Lord. It is the Consciousness of God the Father.'
Hermes Trismegistus

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."

#Max Planck

you are able to see a hair in the eye of your brother but you fail to see a log in your own eye - isa ibn maryam a.k.a jesus

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship" -Louisa May Alcott

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” -James Dean

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- JFK

“ People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ”
— Robert Half

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
- Mark Twain

"Wherever the government goes, the Constitution goes, and wherever the Constitution goes, the protections that it guarantees restrain the government and requires it to protect those rights." Judge Napolitano

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars make me dream.

- Vincent Van Gogh

The Law is like the Bible - somewhere in the books, there’s always a contradicting note...
- RoXY

Hope you're doing fine, Chrit - I've been b-ed on and off for making a mistake...

L&R,
R

"Convert to the New Jerusalem calendar"

[link to newjerusalemcalendar.com]
Russ Ewert July 2013


Sun Jul 5/13/13

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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
- Mark Twain