If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)

GREAT attitude! ~ Sooz

"I never lose. Either I win or I learn."
~ Unknown

More from the wickedly funny mind of the wonderful Andy Borowitz ~ ~ Sooz

I usually like to leave religion out of politics, but I believe God created Louie Gohmert to make John Boehner look good.
~ Andy Borowitz

LOVE this! ~ Sooz

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
~ Frank A. Clark

TRUTH!!! ~ Sooz

"There is something immoral when so few have so much and so many have so little."
~ Senator Bernie Sanders

A corporation will never truly be a citizen until you can execute one in Texas. (Unknown)

Just watched "The Imitation Game" and was blown away. Great movie. I didn't know much about Alan Turing.

This quote from the movie is great!:

“Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

I can't find it attributed to anyone in particular.

I believe this ~ Sooz

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
~ Stephen Hawking

Ha!

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. -John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator (b. 1936)

This really speaks to me right now with work crap. Too bad I can't afford to do that, lol:

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. -Tennessee Williams

I do this sometimes. Faster.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. -Burt Bacharach

Hahahaha! Early, so I had to think about this one for a couple of seconds.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. -Heard in a neuropsychology classroom

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz

Love this one! ~ Sooz

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning."
~ Benjamin Franklin, author, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat and an original signer of the Declaration of Independence

It is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -Phil White

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. -Jean Paul Richter

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. -Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)


Although I sort of knew the difference, I looked it up:

When you look around the globe and try to wrap your brain around the disturbing poverty that blankets so many people, it’s tempting to ask, whatever happened to generosity? Though both involve the giving of money, charity has humanitarian roots, while generosity has spiritual roots.
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There is an important difference between generosity and charity. Both involve the giving of money, yes! But while charity starts with the checkbook, generosity starts with the heart. While charity has humanitarian roots, generosity has spiritual roots. Thus while the giving of money, even vast sums of it, may make you charitable, it doesn’t necessarily make you generous.

http://princereport.blogspot.ca/2011/04 ... arity.html

Thus while the giving of money, even vast sums of it, may make you charitable, it doesn’t necessarily make you generous.

Especially when it is nations providing "charity" with multiple self-serving strings attached.

The "we" is probably referring to Christians..

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift, satirist

"Never stop learning because life never stops teaching."
~ Unknown

“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is “Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.”

― Chapman Cohen

With the current crop of R candidates, I'd pick the latter...

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)