Saturday, January 10, 2009

Worthy Quotes #18

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
--Henry David Thoreau

Tell the truth the first time, then you won't have to remember what you said.
--Sam Rayburn

For in the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we have been taught.
--Baba Dioum

They can because they think they can!
--Virgil

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser.

When you have something to prove, there’s nothing better than a challenge.
--Terry Bradshaw

We need the strongest men of the party in the cabinet. We need to hold our own people together. I had looked the party over and over and concluded that these were the very strongest men. Then I had no right to deprive the country of their services.
--Abraham Lincoln (when asked why his cabinet included arch enemies and rivals)

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. But don’t complain.
-–Maya Angelou

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
--Garrison Keillor

Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.
--Socrates

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