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Someguywhodoesntlikeyou

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My insomnia is acting up and I’m reading a Vonnegut book.


“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

-Adam Smith

“I hear there are three kinds of suns in Kansas. Sunshine. Sunflowers and sons of bitches”
-The Outlaw Josie Wales.


“To the Army and the navy and the battles they’ve won. To the red white and blue and the colors that never run”
-Big Trouble in Little China.
(My friends from college and I still use that one when we get together.)

‘We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
– Ronald Reagan

“In the long run we’re all dead”
- John Maynard Keynes



And this from the book I’m reading tonight

“But I have to say in defense of humankind: in no matter what was in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. and, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren’t crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls basketball”
 
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AustinTXCat

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^ As a POW/EPW in WW2, Vonnegut survived Dresden bombing. His writing reflects as much. Tremendous respect for Kurt.
 
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JamesIII

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” - Greek Proverb

“I can’t believe that Nancy Grace has a ******.” - me circa 2012
 
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gamecockcat

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It's better to remain silent and to be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these: it might have been.
-John Greenlief Whittier
 
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MegaBlue05

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“Rickey don’t like it when Rickey can’t find Rickey’s limo” - Rickey Henderson

“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction” - Charles Darrow, often misattributed to Mark Twain
 
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berniecarbo

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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses- in the gym, and out there on the road long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali
 
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warrior-cat

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Oct 22, 2004
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free. – Ronald Reagon 1961
 
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UKwizard

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Strokin_Bandit

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Fire at will; if you don't see Will, fire anyway.

- my father before every single one of my basketball games
 
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*CatinIL*

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"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
"If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question."
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
Ronald Reagan.

And...
"What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?" Taggart
 
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Deeeefense

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Aug 22, 2001
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A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. Proverbs 18:2

The only person who never makes a mistake is someone who does nothing. Albert Einstine.

Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face. Mike Tyson

The world is in tilt when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy and the tallest basketball player is a Chinese. Charles Barkley

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi
 
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Ahnan E. Muss

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Deeeefense said:
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. Proverbs 18:2

The only person who never makes a mistake is someone who does nothing. Albert Einstine.

Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face. Mike Tyson

The world is in tilt when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy and the tallest basketball player is a Chinese. Charles Barkley
Click to expand...

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/16/no-mistakes/
 
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PhDcat2018

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Deeeefense said:
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. Proverbs 18:2

The only person who never makes a mistake is someone who does nothing. Albert Einstine.

Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face. Mike Tyson

The world is in tilt when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy and the tallest basketball player is a Chinese. Charles Barkley
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I actually disagree with the 2nd one. There's sins of commission and of ommission.
 
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HymanKaplan_rivals48997

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"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”

~ Ring Lardner
 
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4Frusciante#

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When the end of the world comes I want to be in Kentucky...where everything happens 10 year late.
Mark Twain

Before you criticize a man walk a mile in his shoes; that way if he gets mad you'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.
Unknown
 
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4Frusciante#

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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (he must have been very rich; poor people can't afford that many names)
 
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