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Points to Ponder Quotes

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If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else so you expect to find it?

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.

– John F. Kennedy

If the people don’t want to come out to the park, nobody’s gonna stop them.

If there is no wind, row.

If someone says that you are a “model” instructor, husband or whatever, just remember that a “model” is defined as “a small replica of the real thing”!

If the earth’s population was shrunk to a village of 100 people, 52 of them would be female, 48 male.

If I’m playing the music of yesterday, how can I play the music of today?

– Michael Graham Allen

If my sister or I took one of those school examinations where you were required to answer only 10 questions out of 12, Mother’s comment on hearing this would be, ‘I hope you chose the hardest ones’.

– Margaret Bourke-White

If one person calls you an ass, don’t worry about it. But if four people call you an ass, you had better go out and buy yourself a saddle.

If crime doesn’t pay … and if we don’t get paid for overtime … isn’t working overtime a crime?

I’d rather know some of the questions than all of the answers.

– James Thurber

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

– George Bernard Shaw

I wonder WHY. I WONDER why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder.

– Richard Feynman

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

– Henry Emerson Fosdick

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

– Harry S. Truman

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

I tried gardening once. My garden was one hundred percent natural. It had no pesticides, no chemicals, no additives … and no vegetables, no fruits and no flowers.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

– Mahatma Gandhi

I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

– John Wanamaker

I don’t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes – oh, there is where the artistry lies!

– Arthur Schnabel

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

– Abraham Lincoln

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

– Galileo Galilei

Humans are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?

– Satchel Paige

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