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IMPROMPTU TOPICS--QUOTATIONSAsk not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. --John F. Kennedy The computer is a moron. --Peter Drucker The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. --Flip Wilson Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. --John F. Kennedy Don't complain. Don't explain. --Henry Ford II Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. --Andrew Young There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. --Colonel Sanders History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing to the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. --John F. Kennedy All currency is neurotic currency. --Norman O. Brown The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. --Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a free lunch. --Milton Friedman The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. --John F. Kennedy The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn. --Earl Warren We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. --Robert F. Kennedy Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. --Albert Einstein Nothing recedes like success. --Walter Winchell One fifth of the people are against everything all of the time. --Robert F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. --John F. Kennedy Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. --Don Corleone The reason why worry kills more people than works is that more people worry than work. --Robert Frost To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. --Golda Meir If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. --John F. Kennedy Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. --Ayn Rand Choice has always been a privilege of those who could pay for it. --Ellen Frankfort The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. --Rupert Murdock If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. --John F. Kennedy Money is the barometer of society's virtue. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm still a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. SIGH. There's so little hope for advancement. --Snoopy Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. --John F. Kennedy If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. --Earl Wilson An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. --Ayn Rand I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. --Henry Miller Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. --John F. Kennedy We can never have enough of that we all do not want. --Eric Hoffer Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. --J. Paul Getty The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us for what we have. --Dr. Joyce Brothers The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly; the man who respects it has earned it. --Ayn Rand We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. --John F. Kennedy People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. --Eric Hoffer The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them anyway. --Ronald Reagan. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. --Milton Friedman To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. --Michael Kordo A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain. --Robert Frost If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. --Aristotle Onassis Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. --Walter Kerr People are not born bastards. They have to work at it. --Rod McKuen Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone. --Laurence Peter Be awful nice to 'em going up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. --Fats Domino Nowadays people can be divided into three classes--The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-For-What-They-Haves. --Earl Wilson A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. --Joey Adams Work is the curse of the drinking classes. --Mike Romanoff The world is full of willing people--some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. --Robert Frost Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. --Walter Lippman The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. --Gay Talese Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. --Ralph Nader Man cannot live by incompetence alone. --Laurence Peter The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. --Betty Friedman A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self--it all comes down to a freedom of choice. --Betty Ford If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong; I an invincible; I am a woman. --Helen Reddy Anatomy is destiny. --Sigmund Freud Boys will be boys these days and so, apparently, will girls. --Jane Howard If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. --Florynce Kennedy All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. --Marilyn French The image of a woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs. --Kate Millett The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. --Betty Rollin The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. --Florynce Kennedy I don't think that man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. --Shana Alexander They say women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. --Clare Boothe Luce Don't agonize. Organize. --Florynce Kennedy God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made women. --Adela Rogers St. John Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. --Cornelia Otis Skinner Work is not really new for women; what is new for women is the chance to be leaders. --Clay Felker You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free. --Shere Hite No gesture is more gallant than the courage to spit in the eye. There is a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad. --Phyllis George A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. --Katherine Hepburn Women--the greatest natural resource in the world today. --Edward Steichen Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken. --Federico Fellini We have the right to our own bodies. --Shere Hite All too many men still seem to believe in a rather naive and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women. --Shere Hite Free to be you and me. --Marlo Thomas All human life on the planet is born of women. --Adrienne Rich The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women. --Muhammad Ali I'd like to thank God, because SHE makes everything possible. --Helen Reddy The basic and essential human is the woman. --Orson Wells Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves. --Betty Friedman When you win, nothing hurts. --Joe Namath A spur of the moment is the essence of adventure. --Anthony Armstrong-Jones Man is not made for defeat. --Ernest Hemingway Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. --Carl Sagan American youth is looking for a reason to die. --Jerry Rubin Violence is as American as cherry pie. --Stokley Carmichael High school students are the largest oppressed minority in America. --Mario Savio If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. --Norman Thomas If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. --Richard Nixon A black person never leaves the ghetto. --Sammy Davis Jr. Nobody will save us from us but us. --Reverend Jesse Jackson A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. --Julian Beck Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts--it's what you do with what you have left. --Hubert Humphrey You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. --Medgar Evers Politics is the art of the possible. --Lyndon B. Johnson A man without a vote is a man without protection. --Lyndon B. Johnson You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. --Lyndon B. Johnson What convinces is conviction. --Lyndon B. Johnson You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. --Lyndon B. Johnson We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. --Dwight D. Eisenhower We did not choose to be the guardians at the gate. But there is no one else. --Lyndon B. Johnson War is not healthy for children and other living things. --Antiwar Poster All wars are popular for the first thirty days. --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. --Salvador Dali We need to devise a system within which peace will be more rewarding than war. --Margaret Mead Love means never having to say you're sorry. --Erich Segal Love never makes demands. Love is unconditional acceptance of him and his feelings. --Marabel Morgan Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them. --Marilyn Monroe The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. --Hubert Humphrey A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. --Ann Landers It takes two to destroy a marriage. --Margaret Trudeau No one ever filed for divorce on a full stomach. --Mama Leone I never loved another person the way I loved myself. --Mae West Marriages are like diets. They can be ruined by having a little dish on the side. --Earl Wilson Divorce is defeat...It's an adult failure. Illusion is the secret of beauty. --George Masters We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more. --Cary Grant The only thing people are interested in is people. --Diana Vreeland Pleasure is everything. --Diana Vreeland A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. All advertising is good news. --Marshall McLuhan The real news is bad news. --Marshall McLuhan Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times--Love! Love! Love! --Pele Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. --Vince Lombardi (misquoted) Winning isn't everything. It's how you react to losing. --Vince Lombardi Sports do not build character. They reveal it. --Heywood Hale Broun A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. --Vince Lombardi I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer. --Evel Knievel Sports is the toy department of human life. --Howard Cosell If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. --Dean Martin Drinking is not a spectator sport. --Jim Brosnan Hurt is in your mind. --Henry Lombardi to his son Vince No on knows what to say in the loser's room. --Muhammad Ali Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. --George Allen Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. --Bill Bradley When you win, you're an old pro. When you lose, you're an old man. --Charley Conerly Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. --Charles O. Finley All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive. --Joe Paterno I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. --Reggie Jackson Everybody's negotiable. --Muhammad Ali All I have is natural ability. --Mickey Mantle. Read my lips. No new taxes! --George Bush Date: 2014-12-29; view: 1246
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