"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."

-- Ann Landers

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“What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.”
“For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class”

Source : Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
“I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.”

Source : "Friday Lightning Round: ObamaCare criticism from Democrats". "Special Report", www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.
“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.”
“This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!”

Source : Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”
“God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.”

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