QUOTE A DAY - August 2, 2016

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
--John Burroughs

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
--Nikola Tesla

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
--G.K. Chesterton


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

[BTW, I am not a Democrat either!]
See at the bottom for the answer



*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
--Donald Trump

The verbal confusion technique, which is quite difficult to administer, involves an approximation of double-talk in which instructions of a somewhat contradictory kind are given in rapid succession, making it impossible for the attentive subject either to quite comprehend or quite acquiesce to any of them. Finally, he simply gives up all attempts and more or less collapses into a hypnotic state.
--Jesse Gordon, Handbook of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
--Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), Clergyman, historian


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

ANSWER: H.L. Mencken

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