Category Archives: quotes

Malcolm X Birthday

February 21, 2012 – 1:36 pm

He would have been 87.

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Back to 2007

December 13, 2011 – 7:55 am

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” – Sinclair Lewis

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The Kiss of Winston Churchill

November 23, 2011 – 10:45 am

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. Winston Churchill

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In the Words of Albert Finney

October 30, 2011 – 7:36 am

Few films are as bittersweet romantic as the comic road movie TWO FOR THE ROAD starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. The two play star-crossed lovers traveling throughout Europe. Their honeymoon brings them to a country hotel in France, where they observed older couples speechlessly dining together. “What kind of people don’t speak to each […]

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I Still Like Ike

September 30, 2011 – 6:22 am

Eisenhower speaks from the grave with grace. A great American president. He ended the Korean War, reduce federal deficits, opposed Israel in the Suez Canal, rejected helping the French suppress the Vietnamese, secretly stopped the proto-fascist Joe McCarthy, built the Interstate system, enforce desegregation of schools, and had a decent golf game. He was Supreme […]

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