Quotations

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 Piggy: "How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?"  Lord of the Flies

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

"Water Your Garden."   Ms. Jones

When he finished, Washington removed a letter from his breast pocket that he had received from a member of the Continental Congress. He hesitated for a moment as he looked down at the letter before fumbling to retrieve a pair of spectacles from his pocket. Before reading the letter, Washington, in an almost apologetic tone said, “Gentlemen, you must pardon me. I have grown old in the service of my country and now find that I am growing blind.” The eyes of most of his audience filled with tears. The content of the letter became irrelevant as the assembled officers realized that Washington had given as much or more in the service of the new nation as any of them.
George Washington... Newburgh Conspiracy

"Let us not seek the Republican answer nor the Democratic answer but the right answer." --John F. Kennedy


"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."
--William James

Frankie Bucco contributed this quote:

"Lead, follow or get out of the way".   Thomas Paine