"My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends." - Alexandre Dumas, pere
"fear is the path to the dark side, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering" Yoda
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." Oscar Wilde
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings." Laurence J. Peter
So very true!! [FONT="]There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it - Edith Wharton [/FONT][FONT="]Computers are useless. They can only give you answers - Pablo Picasso. LOL!![/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT]
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Smith Patton, Jr.
"A Speech should be like a dress on a beautiful woman long enough to cover the important parts but short enough to keep your interest."
pretty long passage taken from an even longer article...but note/quote worthy, nonetheless 'The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours. Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog. The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.' - Retired Army Lt Colonel Dave Grossman
"I have a sentimal weakness for my children, and I spoil them as you can see... They talk when they should listen." Don Corleone
"If anything in this life is certain, if history has thought us anything, it is that you can kill anyone." The Godfather
