Friday Quote Collection | Short Quotes | 8/28/09

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Friday Quote Collection | Short Quotes | 8/28/09

FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-08-28 Assembled by R. VARGA

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // 2009-08-28

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose - because it contains all the others - the fact that they were the people who created the phrase to make money. No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."

- Ayn Rand ('Atlas Shrugged')

"Men hate those to whom they have to lie."

- Victor Hugo

"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

- Warren Buffett

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."

- Malayan Proverb

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

- Eric Hoffer

"Accountability breeds response-ability."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

- Voltaire

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd."

- Garrison Keillor

"The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention - something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead."

- Ken Blanchard

"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."

- Casey Stengel

"A man reaps what he sows."

- Galatians 6:7

"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

- John Ruskin

"Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier."

- Lillian Hellman

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."

- Bertrand Russell

"Alice came to the fork in the road.

'Which road do I take?' she asked.

'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire cat.

'I don't know,' Alice answered.

'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter'."

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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The Times They Are A-Changin

- Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.