January 2010
9 posts
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
– Voltaire
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“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
– Shakespeare
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“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they...”
– William Shakespeare
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“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
– Shakespeare
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“If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
– Matthew 15:14
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”
– Epicurus
November 2009
14 posts
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“It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.”
– Jessamyn West
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“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea...”
– Buddha
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha
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“If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the...”
– George Winters
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“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
– Will Rogers
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“We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned...”
– Bill Vaughn
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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.”
– Unknown
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“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs...”
– Charles de Gaulle
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“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
– Buddha
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“Where facts are few, experts are many.”
– Donald Gannon
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King
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“…the safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With...”
– Voltaire
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“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the...”
– Carl Sagan
July 2009
29 posts
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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
– Rafael Sabatini (via reader Katie)
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“Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.”
– John Lennon (via reader Katie)
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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
– Ben Franklin
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“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
– Jean-Luc Picard
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“it’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.”
– anna quindlen
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“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how...”
– Mark Twain
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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
– Mother Teresa
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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of...”
– Stephen Ambrose
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“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
– Yogi Berra
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“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
– Cesare Pavese
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“True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of...”
– Joseph Addison
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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the...”
– Princess Diana
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“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
– Robert Frost
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“To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.”
– Cynthia Ozack
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“In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that...”
– Dorthea Dix
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“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for...”
– Rita Rudner
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really...”
– Madeline L’Engle
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“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can...”
– Judith Martin, Miss Manners
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“The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.”
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son...”
– Charles Wadsworth
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“The future is much like the present, only longer.”
– Dan Quisenberry
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“By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.”
– Malcolm Forbes
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“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be...”
– Aneurin Bevan, via Andrew, in honor of the people of Iran (love this! Thanks Andrew!)
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“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that...”
– Fran Lebowitz