QUOTE A DAY - February 24, 2015

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Talk and academic speculation are always fun and cheap; action is often tedious and dear. People who do only the former while refusing to do the latter ought to be ignored whenever their talk and speculation imply the existence of profit opportunities for those who do have the gumption and skills to risk their own resources by taking actions in the real world. That such talking-and-speculating-only people often have "Ph.D." behind their names and impressive lists of academic publications on their resumés in no way lends the slightest bit of credibility to their talking-and-speculating-only advice.
--Don Boudreaux, from Café Hayek forum

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it.
--Ted Koppel, ABC News

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
--John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States)


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
--John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States)

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The man who is at the peak of his success, and the man who have just failed are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next.
--Jigoro Kano

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
--Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States)

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
--Thomas Jefferson


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

ANSWER: John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States)

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