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[Teri]

Happy Veterans Day and thanks to all of our military!!

[Orrin]

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."

--Wendy Liebman

[Teri]

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain

[johntheott]

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."


George Washington

[Orrin]

"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."

--Rita Rudner

[johntheott]

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

John Maynard Keynes

[Teri]

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

[johntheott]

"Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you."

Horace

[Orrin]

"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

--Richard Roeper

[Teri]

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

[Orrin]

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"

--W. Clement Stone

[johntheott]

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."


Leo Tolstoy

[Teri]

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing

[Orrin]

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

--Robert Benchley

[johntheott]

"You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody."


Willie Nelson