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I found this on the computer. Somebody probably put it here few days ago. I just thought I'd put this up. *shrug*

What else can you say when you win your second Oscar?
"I'm just a girl from a trailer park with a dream." -Hilary Swank
Unfortunately, for those watching this snore of an Oscar cast (was it me, or did there only seem to be five movies nominated?), Ms. Swank thought of so much to say they had to shoo her off the stage with music cues.

Force is all conquering, but its victories are short-lived. -Abraham Lincoln

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were whenfirst your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty, still(Sonnet 104)-William Shakespeare

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -Aesop

Smile well and often. It makes people wonder what you've been up to. -Satchel Paige

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.-Katharine Whitehorn

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Aldous Huxley

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Goethe

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold. -Thomas Hobbes

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.-Robert Frost

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.-George Horace Lorimer

Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung.-Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.-Voltaire

I am not a teacher but an awakener.-Robert Frost

In memorium, Vic Sussman (1939-2004). Friend, husband, father, author, editor, broadcaster, iconoclast and Internet pioneer. He spoke truth to power.
Thanks to John M for sharing this quote.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.... If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. (1798 after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act) -Thomas Jefferson

Yes, the quote this week is rather long winded but then Jefferson lived in the age of pen, not the television, and so was not enslaved by the sound byte.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.-Tom Stoppard

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -Harry S. Truman

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. -Andre Gide

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
-Aldous Huxley

"It's all right to lack convictions than to be blind to your mistakes"
- Ashley Brice.

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