Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Politics

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    The reason we have politics at all is that we disagree, sometimes deeply, about how to promote the common good, and we need a peaceful and productive way to resolve or at least manage these disagreements.Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg News, StarTribune, 28-Dec-2011

  • Trust

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    I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.Jewish ProverbGod never gives you more than you can handle, but I wish he didn’t trust me so much…

  • Respect

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    Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?Confucius

  • Merry Christmas

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    Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, said Scrooge.  But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.  Say it is thus with what you show me!Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • Optimism

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    Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.  Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Speak up

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    The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Dante Alighieri

  • Action

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    An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.Arnold H. Glasow