"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
Benjamin Disraeli - British prime minister prior to Dark Era of Destruction by Labour courtesy of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."
Edward Murrow - Mister Radio News at CBS
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking"
John Kenneth Galbraith - Keynesian Economist, penny-pinching Canadian Scottish liberal
"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly."
John Kennedy - Irish mafia offspring, sexual experimentor, 'did' Marilyn Monroe, 35th US President
"Most ballgames are lost, not won."
Casey Stengel - pessimist, baseball manager
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
Orson Welles - movie director, big fat guy, fan of 'happy ending' massages
"What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might."
Marcus Cicero - Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and strip poker world champion (three times)
"There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton - novelist, disco queen
"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."
William Penn - statesman who would have hated my long-winded blog
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another"
John Dewey - educator, philosopher, flower child, submissive fan of leather and whips
"The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability."
Franklin Roosevelt - bullshitter, war monger, US President prior to advent of success-blocking affirmative action policy
"High expectations are the key to everything."
Sam Walton - WalMart founder, enemy of hippies, commies, enviroterrorists, and self-esteem gurus
"To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain - American smart-assed writer and social commentator
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
Malcolm Forbes - publisher, really rich dude
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