Everyone Has Known At Least One…

“She was a part of my heart. Now she’s just a line in my face.”

-- Tom Petty, from his latest release, Mojo

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Ever Quick with a Quip…

“That’s one of the best questions I’ve ever heard.”

— Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting , May 1, 2010 responding to a German shareholder thanking him for, through acquiring Burlington Northern, “taking the future of American railroads into your gifted hands.”

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“You have to call us Great Uncle.”

To a girl from Los Angeles who called Buffett and his business partner, Charlie Munger,  ’Uncle’ because she said that is the custom for children to refer to their elders in India, where her parents come from. Her question centered on whether Berkshire Hathaway would invest more in India.

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A Fairly Succinct Analysis of the True Nature of Government

“Government is like watching another man pissing in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

— Orson Scott Card, Heartfire

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A Couple More Killer Quotes from an Extraordinary Novel

“Hypocrisy is thriving. And its future is even brighter.”

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“The mganga* has turned your head.”

“Perhaps,” I replied, “perhaps he has turned my head. But now I know I am looking in the right direction.”

— The Collector of Worlds, A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov

*mganga — medicine man

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A Truthful Assessment from an Exceptionally Intriguing Novel

“If no one knows the way, anyone can be a guide.”

– Sidi Mubarak Bombay, from The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov

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Apparently California Hasn’t Cornered the Market on Wit…

“REPUBLICAN — Because Everyone Can’t Be on Welfare”

– Frame on a Nevada license plate

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Yes, Folks, It’s True: All New Material in the Second Show

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer testifying before the Assembly Budget Committee, of which three of its 27 members were in attendance, at a December 14 interim hearing on California’s level of debt:

“Forecasters were created to make astrologers look good.”

In response to Assemblyman Jim Silva, a Huntington Beach Republican, saying his top spending priorities are public safety, education, health, transportation and water:

“That’s about 98 percent of the budget.”

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Sound Eerily Familiar? Think ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’

Of War:

“There has never been a just one, never an honorable one – on the part of the instigator of a war. I can see a million years ahead and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances.

The loud little handful – as usual – will shout for the war. The pulpit will – warily and cautiously – object – at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war and will say, earnestly and indignantly, “It is unjust and dishonorable and there [....]

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There’s a Reason He’s Called “The Great Communicator”

“I’ve been a little disappointed lately with some in the business community who have forgotten that feeding more dollars to government is like feeding a stray pup. It just follows you home and sits on your doorstep asking for more.”

— Ronald Reagan

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Good Political Advice from a French Mathematician

“We do not display greatness by going to one extreme but in touching both at once and filling all the intervening space.”

                                               – Blaise Pascal, 1655

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