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There are two kinds of Christian morals, one private and the other public.
These two are so distinct, so unrelated, that they are no more akin to each other than are archangels and politicians.
During three hundred and sixty-three days in the year the American citizen is true to his Christian private morals, and keeps undefiled the nation's character at its best and highest; then in the other two days of the year he leaves his Christian private morals at home and carries his Christian public morals to the tax office and the polls, and does the best he can to damage and undo his whole year's faithful and righteous work.
Without a blush he will vote for an unclean boss if that boss is his party's Moses, without compunction he will vote against the best man in the whole land if he is on the other ticket.
Every year in a number of cities and States he helps put corrupt men in office, whereas if he would but throw away his Christian public morals, and carry his Christian private morals to the polls, he could promptly purify the public service and make the possession of office a high and honorable distinction.

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Russ55

Ken Light:
Russ55:
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
I love this. I'm using this is my statistics class when we talk about the normal curve.

Yeah, it certainly puts it in perspective. Are you teaching now?

RBeckom

Fart not lest your senses be offended.

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james40

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Heavy

james40:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.

Heavy

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."
-Mitch Hedberg

james40

Heavy:
james40:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.

Winnar Winnar, Chicken Dinnar. Yep, I tend to like every quote of his.

mmccartneydc

james40:
Heavy:
james40:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.
Winnar Winnar, Chicken Dinnar. Yep, I tend to like every quote of his.

jlmarta

"Some weeks have four or five Mondays in a row" - J.L. Marta

RBeckom

jlmarta:
"Some weeks have four or five Mondays in a row" - J.L. Marta

Seems that way more often as we get older.

:-)

RBeckom

Speak not lest you be quoted.

RBeckom

Never drink the milk from the back of the fridge!

jlmarta

And then there's the one Russ55 seems to like,

"I stick a raisin in my belly button and pretend I'm a cookie", - J.L. Marta

mmccartneydc

Hell, yes, it's a Cuban cigar. But I'm not supporting their economy. I'm burning their fields.~Kinky Friedman (thanks Tony)

RBeckom

His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

beatnic

I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town, seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was not irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one's nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being what it was.
C.S. Lewis

JDH

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

JDH

“The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.”

? Theodore Roosevelt

JDH

We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

– Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, "The New Nationalism" (August 31, 1910)

kuzi16

"In a fascist system, property is privately “owned,” but its use is dictated and controlled by government officials...

....When government officials have such immense powers, individuals and businesses seek to influence the use of that power. They make campaign donations, offer investment opportunities, and provide other perks to politicians. In exchange, Congressmen use their political power to benefit their cronies. What cannot be achieved in a boardroom is achieved in a Congressional hearing room. "

- Brian Phillips

Schrooz

side of the sun

the bulls are grand as the side of the sun
and although they kill them for the stale crowds,
it is the bull that burns the fire,
and although there are cowardly bulls as
there are cowardly matadors and cowardly men,
generally the bull stands pure
and dies pure
untouched by symbols or cliques or false loves,
and when they drag him out
nothing has died
something has passed
and the eventual stench
is the world.

beatnic

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Ben Franklin

Schrooz

This for those of you who've dreaded incoming bunkerbusters

on going out to get the mail
the droll noon
where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers
to be raped by blackbirds

I go outside and all up and down the street
the green armies shoot color like an everlasting 4th of July,
and I too seem to swell inside, a kind of unknown bursting,
a feeling, perhaps, that there isn't any enemy
anywhere.

and i reach down into the box and there is
nothing ---not even a letter from the gas co. saying they will shut it off again

not even a short note from my x-wife bragging about her present happiness.

my hand searches the mailbox in a kind of
disbelief long after the mind has given up

there's not even a dead fly down there!

I am a fool, I think, I should have known it works like this.

I go back inside as all the flowers leap to please me.

JDH

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

Mark Twain

JDH

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

I agree with this view, except there are two religions: Atheism, and the one Shaw describes.

RBeckom

If you can't find it in your heart to do some good, do us all A favor and jump off A bridge.

Unknown

RBeckom

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

JDH

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

I think it can also be said that business without ethics or morals is evil.

RBeckom

"The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. . .When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

P.J. O'Rourke

Schrooz

Don't only practice your art, But force your way into its secrets. For it and knowledge Can raise men to the divine.
-Ludwig van Beethoven

kuzi16

JDH:
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

I think it can also be said that business without ethics or morals is evil.

anything without morals has potential to be evil.

the good news is that when business has zero morals (with a government that isnt corrupt like ours) it will collapse on itself. nobody wants to work for or buy from a bunch of dicks.