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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Quote AssHatZombie:
So you prefer our boys dying daily on these suicidal patrol missions where they are sitting ducks. Now we know where you stand.

We sure do, and it's miles above you.

Yes, if my two choices are genocide or our soldiers (some dying are women, but I know you refuse to acknowledge that as it threatens what little shred of masculinity you have) dying daily, I choose our soldiers dying daily. I do not place any higher value on the life of an American or of a white person, than I do on the life of a non-American or a brown person. Now, I do not know if it is racism or nationalism leading you to this clearly psychopathic position, but knowing you it's both. Because I value all human lives, I cannot conclude that it would be better to slaughter millions to save thousands.

My first "preference" of course, since I am smarter than you are, was not to go into Iraq in the first place, thus avoiding the false choice you present. And I reject your false choice at any rate, and choose instead, our withdrawal from Iraq.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.

Every family has a black sheep.
(in regard to Dick Cheney being a distant cousin of Barack Obama

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Trying to solve poverty with government is like sobering up with whiskey shots.

Live for today, but look forward to tomorrow, and also, don't forget to smile.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being President.

Can you smell money?!?!

24/7 -- 24 hours a week, 7 months a year.

I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

No more good must be attempted than the public can bear.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.