"Quotes"
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Winston Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When Deng Xiaoping uttered his famous capitalistic phrase "to get rich is glorious" in 1978, he ushered in a new period of economic development and prosperity.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The switch from a planned economy to a more market-oriented economy has grown the Chinese economy by almost 10% per year, lifted 170 million Chinese out of poverty, and increased the amount of savings in Chinese banks by 220-fold. Never before in history has any country made such amazing economic progress in a single generation.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Tony Sagami of the Uncommon Wisdom web-site.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The switch from a planned economy to a more market-oriented economy has grown the Chinese economy by almost 10% per year, lifted 170 million Chinese out of poverty, and increased the amount of savings in Chinese banks by 220-fold. Never before in history has any country made such amazing economic progress in a single generation.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Tony Sagami of the Uncommon Wisdom web-site.
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I wish I were a grapefruit!
U wanna know y?
cuz every time u try to eat me
I'll squirt u in da eye!!
U wanna know y?
cuz every time u try to eat me
I'll squirt u in da eye!!
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting"
"You can fool some people sometimes, but you cant fool all people all the time"
"I don't know what to say really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives. It all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the sh*t kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time.
Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces, and I think... I mean I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me, and lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. And so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean... one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f*cking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face..."
-Al Pacino, Any given sunday
"You can fool some people sometimes, but you cant fool all people all the time"
"I don't know what to say really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives. It all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the sh*t kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time.
Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces, and I think... I mean I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me, and lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. And so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean... one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f*cking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face..."
-Al Pacino, Any given sunday
