Tag: quotable

Jul 16

Truman, Missouri, and music

President Truman was a musician and a Missourian. However, he didn’t care much for our state song, The Missouri Waltz: “It’s a ragtime song and if you let me say what I think–I don’t give a [expletive deleted] about it, but I can’t say it out loud because it’s the song of Missouri. It’s as …

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Jun 17

Timmy’s cough

Warning: this story is not for the squeamish. My friend Timmy was driving down the road. He was also just getting over a cold, and he had to cough. When he coughed, he coughed up some phlegm. While he would have normally just spat it out the window, he hesitated, as he had just washed his …

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Jun 08

Quotable: Calvin Coolidge

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Jun 04

Quotable: Daniel Seaman

“I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live in Jerusalem.” –Israeli Government Press Director Daniel Seamen, commenting on the Obama administration’s demand that Israel stop building in areas it acquired in the Six Day War.