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Have you ever experienced a day or two where inspiration just doesn’t seem to be forthcoming? Well, I have to admit, this “blog-a-day” thing is a lot harder than it looks! The time required to screen countless articles, the mental energy needed to synthesize my thoughts, the anguish of wondering if I’ve even contributed anything of value at all – oh the humanity!

I can tell you’re unmoved.

Well, what the hey, it was worth a try. Since I’m a little short of inspiration today, I might as well share with you some of my favorite quotes – some funny, some serious, but all worth a minute of thought just the same. Enjoy!

• “There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” – Don Herold, American humorist, writer, illustrator and cartoonist
• “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henny Youngman, comedian
• “As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” – M. Cartmill, scientist
• “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” – John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising
• “I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.” – Beryl Pfizer (apparently her only claim to fame is that she supposedly said this)
• “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rich Cook, programmer
• “A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.” – Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb
• “We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.” – W.H. Auden, English poet
• “I’m much happier getting criticized for overreaching than I would for being too timid.” – Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink
• “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” – Dorothy Parker, American writer and poet
• “Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.” – Cullen Hightower, salesman and sales trainer
• “The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.” – Solomon Short, some guy
• “The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” – Aldous Huxley, Author
• “I believe that people would be alive today if there was a death penalty.” – Nancy Reagan, former First Lady

And my personal favorite:

• “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.” – A. Whitney Brown, comedian

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