Ten Random Quotes

"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
Robert Baden-Powell

"Humor offers an alternative to violence. Humor gives us a choice."
William F. Fry, Jr.

"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting."
William J. Brennan, Jr.

"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening."
Marge Piercy

"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
Adam Smith

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
Sophocles

"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
E. L. Doctorow

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
Herbert Hoover

"In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union."
Conan O'Brien

"Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?"
Kin Hubbard

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