Cullen Hightower quotes
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“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.”
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“Strangers are what friends are made of.”
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“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
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“The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.”
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“Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.”
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“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.”
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“Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.”
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“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.”
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“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
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“The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..”
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“When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.”
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“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”
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“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”
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“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.”
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“Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.”
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“Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.”
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“Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.”
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“Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.”
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“We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.”
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“Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.”
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“A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.”
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“Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.”
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“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”
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“Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.”
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“Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.”
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“Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.”
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“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”
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“There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.”
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“Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.”
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“The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.”
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“One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.”
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“A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.”
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“The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.”
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“The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.”
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“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”
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“There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.”
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“We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.”
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“Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.”
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“A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.”
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“Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance”
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“Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.”
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“If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.”
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“When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.”
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