>>>No sympathy here. Get a grip, grow up, and be responsible for your own life for a change.
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>>I offer the observation, for all those who pride themselves on being so much smarter than George W Bush ... When W realized alcohol was screwing up his life - he stopped drinking.
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>>He's dumb enough to believe in a higher power and that other people might be smart enough to help him when he needs it - and he's sober.
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>I always thought he was a good man and smarter than most people. You don't win two terms being an idiot.
And confronting your demons and defeating them shows strength and character. If Clinton, Kennedy or Nixon had been able to do that they'd have been better men and better Presidents.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
