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“Global Warming…Has anyone noticed it’s warmer in the summer than winter, and warmer during the day than night. What causes this? Also, how about those solar explosions, volcanos, forest fires and controlled burns? Unknown
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal politicians are the lowest form of politicians.” General George S. Patton
“In the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster.” Andre Ferguson
“I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it.” Pope Francis
“Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.” Jack Welch
“To err is human, but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.” Dame Agatha Christie
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.” Dale Carnegie
“Obamacare: To insure the uninsured, we first make the insured uninsured, and then make them pay more to be insured again, so the original uninsured can be insured for free.” G. Werner
“After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.” George W. Bush
“I have trained myself to notice what I see.” Sherlock Holmes
“Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.” Mark Cuban
“The difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
“Don’t ever give up your ability to make your own money.” John C. Bogle
“Prediction is very difficult, especially when it’s about the future.” Niels Bohr
“When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.” Carl Ichan
“The socialist myth system of promises: the eternally promised fantasy that good government is here to protect and provide for us, ensnares the idealistic young, the Social Security/Medicare crowd, and a good portion of the working middle class. This provides the illusion that since we are all paying into the system it allows voters to justify attacking rich folks for not paying their fair share.” Joe Boccuzi
“President Obama has adopted virtually every anti-growth measure known to mankind, including higher taxes, strangulating government regulation, demonization of successful entrepreneurs, favoritism to labor unions, and the crown jewel of them all, ObamaCare.” R.M. Sussman
“Don’t buy a financial product that you don’t understand, and don’t buy it from a person who can’t explain it so you can understand it.” Sallie Krawcheck
“It’s very risky to tell poorly mannered people how to behave. They usually take offense and get worse.” J.M. Laskas
“That government is best that governs least.” Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
“The wise man must be wise before, not after.” Epicharmus
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Unknown
“Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.” Sir John Templeton
“The UN was not created to take humanity to heaven but to save it from hell.” Dag Hammarskjold
“Be always sure you’re right – then go ahead.” David Crockett
“Open all mail from the IRS.” Unknown
“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Alva Edison
“I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.” Albert Einstein
“The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Gary Shilling
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” George Carlin
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“Look, John McCain’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one problem facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” Joe Biden
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” Jay Leno
“Happiness is health plus freedom.” Scott Adams
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.” John Glenn
“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” Mitt Romney
“We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start.” Harvey Mackay
“Intentions are not results.” Adam Smith
“If 80% of Obamacare website visitors complete the sign up it will be a 100% success.” Website Administration Semantics
“The most important term in any contract isn’t in the contract; it’s dealing with people who are honest.” Harvey Mackay
“A pessimist is someone who feels bad when he feels good because he is afraid he’ll feel worse in the future.” Tim Masters
” …when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
“Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.” Anita Roddick
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If politicians have more of other people’s money to spend, they will spend it.” Raymond Pecaut
“Never pay a cannibal to eat you last.” Haley Barber
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.” Vaclav Klaus
” If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion. Few things are as destructive and limiting as a world-view that assumes people are mostly rational.” Scott Adams
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“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds for success.” Scott Adams
“They don’t pay off on effort…they pay off on results.” Harvey Mackay
“Any society that relies on nine unelected judges to resolve the most serious issues of the day is not a functioning democracy.” Justice Anthony Kennedy
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” Mary McCarthy
“The majority of Americans are voting for a living rather than working for a living.” John Hagee
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” Harvey Mackay
“In the liberal view, no one should suffer for having committed a crime, failed to attend school, failed to diligently look for work, failed to support one’s family and on and on. The basic battle in this country is between those who believe in personal responsibility and those who do not.” And, want to pay for it with someone else’s money. Bart McPherson
“We are always hearing about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money?” Unknown
“I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.” Art Buchwald
“The assumption that government is wiser than markets and capable of willing into existence the preferred industrial or social alternative, something a couple of centuries of experience in industrial democracies casts considerable doubt about.” Robert Robb
“The 10/2 WSJ article describes essential government employees having to work without pay, but it fails to tell the reader that all of those employees and others will receive full back pay once the government shutdown ends.” Scott Blackburn
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln
“Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.” Art Buchwald
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush
“Things have been going great since we redefined success as slowing the rate of failure.” Scott Adams
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” LeFevre
“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” Thomas Jefferson
“You don’t need 20 decisions to get very rich. Four or five will probably do it over time.” Warren Buffett
“Good intentions do not repeal the laws of economics.” James Sherk
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.” W.C Fields
“People who are successful tend to remain successful. People who are happy tend to remain happy. People who are respected tend to remain respected. People who reach their goals tend to go on reaching their goals.” Nido Qubein
“Before you speak, think: Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence?” Sai Baba
“Just because you’re taught something is right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.” Mark Twain
“To the many critics of America, in Europe and around the globe, I say this: if you didn’t like that old world in which the United States regularly intervened, just see how you like the new one in which it doesn’t.” T. G. Ash
“The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit each party is worse than the other.” Will Rogers
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.” David Hume
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” Mark Twain
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.” Will Rogers
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein
“Buy things that appreciate and rent things that depreciate.” John Paul Getty
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“The very essence of socialist thought: Life is hopeless, unfair, useless, and only the intellectual elite can make your existence better for you by restoring equality, fraternity and maybe liberty.” H. McKinney
“We must reject the idea that every time a law is 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
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther
“Each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.” Ray Kroc
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“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not greed to want to take someone else’s money.” Thomas Sowell
“The likelihood that ObamaCare will make our health system as dysfunctional and expensive as the rest of government is extremely high.” Ryan Pierce
“Whenever the government gets involved in an activity that is not properly any of its business, we get the infamous trio: waste, fraud, abuse, and then the politicians feel the need to meddle still more in an effort to solve the problems they’ve created.” George Leef
“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone except God” – Billy Graham
“Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face.” Mike Tyson
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