Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys

Here's A Thought: One Thing A Penny Still Buys - Blogithttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/Just quotes without my two cents worth thrown in. (If you want that, you'll have to comment on the quote.)hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00The First Law Of Statecraft: To Thine Own Interests Be Truehttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/603422"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow." -- Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, defending foreign policy in the House of Commons, 1848Forgive Him? Even The Republicans Are Abandoning Him...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/599080“We could have forgiven him for his public clumsiness if he had been doing anything for the country.” – David Letterman, speaking with Katie Couric about President George W. BushEver Wonder How Come Warhawks Sound Like Idiots?https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/599077"The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated." -- Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administrationDid I Hear Someone Say Anything About Lower Taxes In That Stimulus Package?https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/596601"Once in a while they [Republicans] will latch on to phony but conservative-sounding causes like "tax reforms" -- almost always a shell game in which taxes are shuffled around rather than actually reduced overall -- in order to pacify the conservative base, but that's about it." -- Congressman...Because Nirvana Is Just A Band Out of Seattle...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/594808"Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands." -- Carl Jung, commentary, The Secret of the Golden FlowerIt May Be A Job, But It Is Also A Calling...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/593450"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?" -- Vita Sackville-West, Twelve DaysYesterday, When I Was Young...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/593048"It is one of the great ironies of human experience that by the time we are old enough to reflect on what it is like to be a child, we are usually far removed from the experience." -- Stuart C. Aiken, Playing With Children88% Of Evangelical Christians Believe Better Off If All Were Christianshttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/586622"There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men." -- Heinrich Heine, 19th Century German Romantic poet (Title percentage from Rasmussen Reports, Dec. 24)On CNN's "Heroes," John Legend Presents A Call To Arms...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/581970"...The future started yesterday, and we're already late..." -- John Legend, "If You're Out There"What Compells The Writer's Hand?https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/saul_relative17/580860"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?" -- Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days