The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?”
“Five,” the man answered.
“No,” replied Lincoln, “he’ll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.


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JAMES C. MAXWELL
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so...
JAMES C. MAXWELL
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
JAMES C. MAXWELL
There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for u...
JOHN MAXWELL TAYLOR
The Times-Picayune continued to operate on the World Wide Web, and WWL-TV continued to broadcast eve...
JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON
When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing th...
JOHN MAXWELL TAYLOR
Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
MAXWELL
I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals....
MAXWELL
I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happ...
MAXWELL
Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I&#...
MAXWELL
So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ...
MAXWELL
I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still...
MAXWELL
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I reall...
MAXWELL
I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on tim...
MAXWELL
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must...
MAXWELL
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL
The cost of competing on the Strip has gone up. A billion dollars certainly doesn't get you a top-ti...
JOHN MAXWELL (FINANCIAL ANALYST)
None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you ge...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, p...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, wh...
JOHN C. REILLY
I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ...
JOHN C LEHMAN
Many have screwed the truth, but few have called her the next day.
JOHN C LEHMAN
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir...
JOHN C. PARKIN
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa...
JOHN C. BURTON
I will tell each person what I have told others in the past
JOHN C. METZLER
Many veterans dream of being buried here. These grounds speak of dignity and respect, and the magnit...
JOHN C. METZLER
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
JOHN C. LILLY
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
JOHN C. LILLY
If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo...
JOHN C. WHITE