Lincoln on Expectations

"If you look for the bad in peopleexpecting to find it, you surely will."

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Sarah Palin on Taking Risks

". . . I didn't get into government to

do the safe and easy things.

A ship in harbor is safe,

but that's not why the ship is built."

Sarah Palin ~ From her speech accepting VP candidacy.

August 29, 2008

UPDATE!!

In the interest of accuracy, I find it necessary to note that at least part of the above quote is not original to Sarah. According to Wikiquote and The Quotations Page, John August Shedd's 1928 book, Salt from My Attic, contained the line:

"A ship in harbor is safe,

but that is not what ships are built for."

In my brief internet search, I found other attributions and variations. However, the attributions to John A. Shedd were the only ones which had detailed information (i.e. title of source material, date published).

Avicenna on the Law of Non-contradiction

 "Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned."

~~~ Avicenna, medieval philosopher

For the record, I enthusiastically accept the Law of Non-contradiction. Absolutely. Without question. No denial here.

Lincoln on Becoming Wiser

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

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Chesterton on Fences

"Don't ever take a fence down until
you know the reason it was put up."

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Lincoln on The Obvious

"For those who like this sort of thing,
this is the sort of thing they like."

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As Heard on Talk Radio

"One lonely synapse firing into nothingness."

Congressman Mike Pence's description of alleged comedian Bill Maher. In his recent anti-Catholic rant, Maher described the Catholic Church as "a child-abusing religious cult". Congressman Pence was filling in for Laura Ingraham on her April 16, 2008 radio show.

Chesterton on Fallacies

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

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Lincoln on Welfare

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they could and should do for themselves."

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Lincoln on Being Remembered

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow."

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Chesterton on Drawing Lines

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

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Lincoln on Preparation

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and
I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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Chesterton on Adventure vs. Inconvenience

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

The Quotations Page

Chesterton on Books

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero;
but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

The Quotations Page

Lincoln on the Constitution

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained,
for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

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Maggie Thatcher On This Date

"To those waiting with bated breath
for that favourite media catchphrase,
the U-turn, I have only one thing to say:

You turn if you want to.
The lady's not for turning!"

~ Margaret Thatcher ~
October 10, 1980

Lincoln on Aging

"Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old."

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Lincoln on Books

"Books serve to show a man that
those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all."

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Lincoln on Women

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of
that I know will not hurt me."

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Lincoln on Doing What's Right

"Let us have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it."

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