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Saying of the Week, and other Famous Quotes

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"A name does not make a great car, a great car makes a name. If you build an exceptional vehicle you can call it anything." - Carroll Shelby
 
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“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don’t have film.” - Oscar Wilde
 
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"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." - Mark Twain
 
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"It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families." - Pythagoras
 
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"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." - Mark Twain
 
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"There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck
 
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“It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!”
- Charles Dickens
 

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"It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-- President Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, 1910
 

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To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creeps in the petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way of dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.-William Shakespeare
 
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Wow, way to go, Joe, you got some some good quotes there from some famous guys ... :thumb:
 

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.

Theodore Roosevelt

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915
 
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"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. " - Robert Wilensky
 

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The road to Success is not straight
There is a curve called failure,
A loop called confusion,
Speed bumps called friends,
Caution lights called family,
And you will have flates called job.
But if you have a spare called determination,
An engine called preserverance.
insurance called faith
And a driver called Jesuss,
You will make a place called success.
~~Author Unknown~~


Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
~~Mother Tersa~
 
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“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” - Zig Ziglar
 
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