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Life is a journey ...

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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"There is no polite way to say 'With all due respect, sir, have you considered the possibility that you have blighted your whole life with fantasy and are polluting the minds of defenseless children with dangerous nonsense.'"

~ Daniel Dennett

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A friend just sent me this.

Moderator intervention may be needed?

Subject: Political correctness defined

 

"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

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"Not all who wander are lost."

J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

 

Bo Bennett, "Year to Success"

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Listed below are twenty Winston Churchill quotations that I found amusing and insightful. After you get over the initial abruptness of these quotations, you will begin to see a deep underlying meaning. If you want to recommend some of your favorite Winston Churchill quotations for this page, fill out the quotations suggestion form.

 

 

Winston Churchill

Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls."

 

Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

 

Winston Churchill

There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.

 

Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

 

Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

 

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

 

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

 

Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

 

Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

 

Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

 

Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

 

Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

 

Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

 

Winston Churchill

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.

 

Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

 

Winston Churchill

Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

 

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

 

Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

 

Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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These seem to be doing the rounds.

 

Deep thoughts for those who take life way too seriously ....

 

1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

 

 

 

2. A day without sunshine is like......night.

 

 

 

3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

 

 

 

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

 

 

 

5. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

 

 

 

6. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

 

 

 

7. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

 

 

 

8. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

 

 

 

9. How many of you believe in psycho kinesis?...Raise my hand.

 

 

 

10. OK...so what's the speed of dark?

 

 

 

11. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

 

 

 

12. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

 

 

 

13. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

 

 

 

14. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

 

 

 

15. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

 

 

 

16. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

 

 

 

17. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

 

 

 

18. Just remember---if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

 

 

 

19. Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

 

 

 

20. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of chillies. What you do today might burn your arse tomorrow.

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