If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
Karel Capek

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

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From an old Naval Intelligence Officer.....one whom I should have listened to much more than I did.....(Not sure he really owned it, but he lived it..)

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER......

My Dad....... Capt USN (ret) NIS, DIA, FICEUR,

“I had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else.”

Oliver Cromwell.

"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
―Gandhi

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

“...you have been sat to long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go!.”

Cromwell addressing the Rump Parliament, April 1653.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams

Looks like I'm not an intellectual. :O:

"To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
―Gandhi

Nor is Billy Connolly :)

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

"You have done your duty in this remonstrance, now obey my orders. I say, lay me alongside the French Admiral!"

Sir Edward Hawke at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759.