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Off Topic: Powerful words
Some Great Quotes:
> No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone
> who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you
> replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace
> it with? -- Thomas Sowell
>
> "Liberty is the only thing that you cannot have,
> unless you are willing to give it to others."
> William Allen White
>
> "We can't solve the problems of today with the same level of thinking
> that was used to create them."
> Einstein
>
> The Gettysburg address is 269 words, the Declaration of
> Independence is 1,337 words, and the Holy Bible is only
> 773,000 words. However, the tax law has grown from 11,400
> words in 1913, to 7 million words today. American taxpayers
> spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to comply
> with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce
> every car, truck, and van in the United States.
>
> There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
> not want merely because you think it would be good for him. (Heinlein)
>
> "The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
> --R. Buckminster Fuller
>
> "If a drought strikes them, animals perish -- man builds irrigation canals;
> if a flood strikes them, animals perish -- man builds dams; if a carnivorous
> pack attacks them, animals perish -- man writes the Constitution of the
> United States."
> -- Ayn Rand
>
> "TODAY is not a dress rehearsal.
> This is the play! "
>
> Dick Boddie