QUOTE A DAY - Aug. 18, 2011

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Heading tomorrow to take my youngest off to college. It is always a sad time because we miss all of our boys. Taking off early today to spend some time.

Today's first quote is from one of my favorites; Emerson. But I must admit, I seek consistency to the Nth degree, which makes my mind mighty small :-)

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
--Ralp Waldo Emerson

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world -- no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
-- Woodrow Wilson 1919

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift

**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is.

See at the bottom for the answer
*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou can't not then be false to any man.
--William Shakespeare.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
--Walter Anderson

MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is.

MYSTERY ANSWER: Sir Winston Churchill

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