Gracie Allen on Government

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Gracie Allen... in 1940


Source: workinghumor.com

Sam Snead on Perishable Skills

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead


Source: 10ktruth.com

Muhammad Ali on Self-Determination

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky -- my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.

Muhammad Ali


Source: 10ktruth.com

Suzy Prudden on Self-Respect

Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, know, respect, and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind.

Suzy Prudden, author

Source: If Life is a Game, These are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott
(c) 1998 Cherie Carter-Scott, p. 17
Broadway Books

Proverb Wisdom

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
Chinese Proverb

The New York Times on Coffee

Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.

Flight of the Coffee Bean
New York Times, Editorial, November 14, 1949

Sources: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World
by Mark Pendergrast (c) 1999 Basic Books, p. 235
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Robert Sutton on Mindfulness

Leonardo Da Vinci said, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end," which is sound social psychology. The more time and effort that people put into anything -- no matter how useless, dysfunctional, or downright stupid it might be -- the harder it is for them to walk away, be it a bad investment, a destructive relationship, an exploitive job, or a workplace filled with browbeaters, bullies, and bastards.

Robert I. Sutton, PhD.
from The No Asshole Rule/
Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
(c)2007 Business Plus Hachete Book Group USA, p. 99

The Continental Congress on America

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence,
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America


Source: Library of Congress

Woodrow Wilson on America

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Woodrow Wilson



Source: quotegarden.com

Hubert Humphrey on Amercia

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

Hubert Humphrey


Source: thinkexist.com

Margaret Mead on America

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Margaret Mead


Source: quotegarden.com

Barbara Jordan on America

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan


Source: brainyquote.com

Jimmy Carter on America

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

Source: brainyquote.com

John F. Kennedy on America

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy


Source: thinkexist.com

Dwight D. Eisenhower on America

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



Source: nonstopenglish.com