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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then

by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

--Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

 

 

 

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except

by lies.

--Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish writer, diplomat and historian

 

 

" In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed

in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that

you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and

misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've

done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually

people catch on. "

-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, speaking this week at the

National Press Club in Washington

 

 

 

 

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often

look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that

we do not see the ones which open for us.

Author: Alexander Graham Bell

 

 

 

J.W. Fulbright , " In a democracy, dissent

is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of

its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. "

 

 

 

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he

uses to frighten you.

 

 

 

 

" May the forces of evil become confused on the way

to your house " George Carlin

 

 

 

" Read, every day, something no one else is reading.

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.

It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. "

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

(1729-1781) German Dramatist

 

 

 

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things

that I haven't.

Lucille Ball

 

 

 

The world has witnessed how the United States attacked Iraq for, as it

turned

out, no reason at all.

Martin Van Crevald, Israeli professor of History