March 16, 2006
WOW - Words of Wisdom
Reach a little further today than you did yesterday.
~ Block of Granite
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February 10, 2006
WOW - Words of Wisdom - 2/10
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
~ Erasmus Darwin
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February 5, 2006
WOW - Words of Wisdom - Super Bowl Sunday
Make the chili HOT and the beer COLD.
~ Block of Granite
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February 1, 2006
WOW - Words of Wisdom - 2/1
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
~ Harry S. Truman
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January 30, 2006
WOW? - Words of Wisdom? 1/30
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
~ Adolf Hitler
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January 24, 2006
WOW? - Words of Wisdom? 1/24
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
~ Bo Jackson
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January 23, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/23
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
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January 20, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/20
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.
~ Pat Riley
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January 19, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/19
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
~ Dudley Field Malone
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January 17, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/17
The American Dream is financial, not ethical.
~ Chinese Ambassador, The West Wing, Jan. 15, 2006
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Today's Quote - 1/16
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 13, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/13
As I continue my life's journey; reading, studying, and learning, I find I know more about the little things, but less about the big ones.
~ The Block of Granite
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January 12, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/12
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
~ Alice Walker
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January 11, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/11
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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January 10, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/10
A leader is best
When people barely know he exists.
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
Worse when they despise him.
"Fail to honor people,
They fail to honor you."
But of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, "We did this ourselves."
~ Lao-tzu, The Way of Life According to Lao-Tsu
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January 9, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/9
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
~ Randy Schutt
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January 6, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/6
You have to laugh every day, because if this is reality, we are all in deep doo doo.
~ The Block of Granite
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January 5, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/5
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
~ former Republican political campaign consultant Ed Rollins to columnist Frank Rich, August 6, 1996 after publication of Rollin's book Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms
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January 4, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/4
Today is a good day to die.
I loved my family and friends with all my heart.
I hunted the biggest bear I could find.
I shook hands with my best competitor.
I forgave my enemies and the assholes of the world, because they can't help that they are idiots, they just are.
I learned some new things.
I laughed at myself.
I toasted the moon with a nice, cold beer
And if given the chance I will do it all again tomorrow.
~ The Block of Granite
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January 3, 2006
Today's Quote - 1/3
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
~ James Freeman Clarke
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December 29, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/29
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
~ attributed to Will Rogers
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December 28, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/28
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
~ Yogi Berra
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December 27, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/27
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
~ Steve Prefontaine, U.S. Track Star
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December 26, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/26
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
~ Edvard Teller
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December 23, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/23
Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.
~ Anonymous
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December 22, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/22
If you're in a crowded situation that could turn into a riot (after the Red Sox have won the World Series, for example) and women aren't flashing their breasts, get out of there. I don't know if exposed breasts reflect a crowd's collective feeling or if the presence of breasts assuages a crowd's temper, but I do know this: No tits is trouble.
~ Dan McAllister
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December 20, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/20
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
~ Ron Nesen
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December 19, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/19
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P.J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores
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December 16, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/16
Business is a combination of war and sport.
~ Andre Maurois
1885-1967, French Writer
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December 15, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/15
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
~ George Shultz
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December 14, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/14
Today you have an unique opportunity to reach further than ever before.......to be a better breadwinner, husband/wife, lover, artist, comic, father, mother, son, daughter, athlete, friend, whatever. The only thing stopping you is yourself.
~ The Block of Granite
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December 13, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/13
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~ Tony Dorsett
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December 12, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/12
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
~ Bud Wilkinson
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December 9, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/9
Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups, all other games are for kids.
~ Unknown
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December 8, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/8
Politics is a blood sport.
~ Aneurin Bevan
1897-1960, British Labor Politician
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December 6, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/6
Love is playing every game as if it's your last.
~ Michael Jordan
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December 5, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/5
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.
~ Plato
Distracts a little from the message, but I couldn't resist.
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December 4, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/4
It was a busy Sunday that didn't allow me to do too much research, reading or writing, but I still dug up a good quote for the day.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
~ Haywood Hale Brown
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December 3, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/3
The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
~ Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma football coach
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December 2, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/2
Sports is like a war without the killing.
~ Ted Turner
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December 1, 2005
Today's Quote - 12/1
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
~ Vince Lombardi
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November 29, 2005
Today's Quote - Nov. 30th
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- nba
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Today's Quote - Nov. 29th
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
~ Chief Justice Earl Warren
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