"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is."   - Winston Churchill     //     "Simple is good."   - Jim Henson     //     "Common sense is not so common."   - Voltaire     //     "go woke, go broke"   - Zeitgeist     //     "Better is the enemy of good."   - E J Faleski     //     "Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty."   - Teddy Roosevelt    //     "Your struggles develop your strengths."   - Arnold Schwarzenegger    //    "One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."   - Nikola Tesla    //    It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.   - Voltaire    //     (Think Covid)    //     Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.   - Voltaire    //     (Think Covid)    //    It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.   - Voltaire    //     (Think Covid)     Disagreement is something normal.     If there are no ups and downs in your life, it means that you are dead    //     "Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it."   - Salvador Dali     //     "Where there is no work, there is no dignity."   - Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)    //     "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."   - Hanlon`s razor    //     After the Civil War, KKK was Dem enforcement arm. Under Dems, it's the FBI.    //     It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.   - Aristotle    //     Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.   - Alaric Hutchinson    //     We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be   - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.    //     Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.   - Voltaire    //     A closed mind is a good thing to lose.   - Anonymous    //     The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed ... by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.   - H. L. Mencken    //     Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.   - Ayaan Hirsi Ali     //     "Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them."   - Shirley Temple    //     "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."   - Michael Jordan    //     "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."   - W.E.B. Du Bois    //     "History is one long processional of crazy ideas."   - Phil Knight    //     "Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath."   - Wilt Chamberlain    //     "It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."   - Jackie Joyner-Kersee     //     "The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity."   - Sir Alexander Fleming    //     "Independence is happiness."   - Susan B. Anthony    //     "A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.   A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.   A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."   - Martin Luther King Jr.    //     "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."   - Vincent van Gogh    //     "The important thing is not to stop questioning."   - Albert Einstein    //     Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."   - Mark Twain    //     "The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past."   - Sigmund Freud    //     "Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!"   - Salvador Dalí    //     "The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."   - Dame Helen Mirren    //     "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."   - Herman Melville    //     "I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character."   - Anne Frank    //     "Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."   - Queen Elizabeth II    //     "Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty."   - Princess Grace Kelly    //     "At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results."   - Chuck Yeager    //     A California federal judge told counsel ... "partners stab each other in the back every day and move on to the next one" -- "it's just how law firms work."   - Sedgwick's Ch. 11    //     "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."   - Benjamin Franklin    //     "There is no way around hard work. Embrace it."   - Roger Federer    //     "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."   - Jerry Garcia    //     "This is my invariable advice to people:   Learn how to cook -- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun."   - Julia Child    //     "It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."   - Mahatma Gandhi    //     "Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."   - Elizabeth Cady Stanton    //     "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals."   - Dorothy Height    //     "Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."   - From Hans Christian Andersen's "The Story of a Mother"    //     "The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."   - Doris Day    //     "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."   - Benjamin Franklin    //     "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."   - Jonas Salk    //     "There is no way around hard work. Embrace it."   - Roger Federer    //     "Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up they will change the world."   - Jack Ma A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.    - Bertrand Russell     //