All On The Line For This Mining For Gold
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3.31.2013
"What we need more than anything else is more facts about feelings." - Don Robinson
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." - Samuel Butler
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"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi
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"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch." - W. C. Fields
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"It's okay to have things, as long as things don't have you." - Rev. Run
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"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." - Paul Beatty
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian
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3.30.2013
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels." - Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." - Vincent van Gogh
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"Four be the things I am wiser to know: idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe." - Dorothy Parker
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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." - Diogenes
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." - Epictetus
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
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"The test of a person’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel." - George Bernard Shaw
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3.29.2013
HAIL TO THE VICTORS!
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli
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"As long as national sovereignty exists, our only hope is to raise everybody’s standard of ethics." - Wernher von Braun
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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you are losing your leisure, look out! You may be losing your soul." - Logan Pearsall Smith
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3.28.2013
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
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"True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. lt simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself." - Earl of Chesterfield
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"The greatest tragedy is indifference." - Red Cross slogan
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a civilized person to be polite to a beggar." - Anonymous
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morale is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"The friend is the person who knows all about you, and still likes you." -- Elbert Hubbard
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3.27.2013
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging. It is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"Wise men don’t need advice. Fools don’t take it." - Benjamin Franklin
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"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything." - Samuel Johnson
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"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning, and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. " - Joseph Campbell
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"O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" - William Shakespeare
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"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot." - Italian Proverb
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3.26.2013
"Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway." - Anonymous
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"Be good enough to remember that your morals are only your habits, and do not call other people immoral because they have other habits." - George Bernard Shaw
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." - Robert Goheen
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"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings." - John Updike
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James
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"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity." - Flannery O'Connor
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3.25.2013
"The only upright man is he who knows his shortcomings." - Titus Marcus Plautus
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"A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau
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"Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best-bred person in the group." ~ Jonathan Swift
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"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." - Rev. Run
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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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3.24.2013
"After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation." - Oscar Wilde
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“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The best way to make something last is often the belief that it won’t." ~ Gerard de Rohan-Chabot
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"Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition." - Arthur Rubinstein
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"Strengthen yourself with contentment, for it is an impregnable fortress." - Epictetus
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"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." - Louis Adamic
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"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." -- Brian Tracy
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3.23.2013
"The essence of courage is not that your heart should not quake, but that nobody else knows that it does." - E. B. Benson
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." - Robert Walpole
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"Common sense consists in not letting oneself be dazzled by a sentiment or an idea, however excellent they may be, to the point of losing sight of everything else." - André Gide
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"You are what you are when nobody is looking." - Abigail Van Buren ( “Dear Abby") and Ann Landers, twin sisters
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"If you don’t like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his plate over into your lap and you won’t mind." - Irving Becker
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"The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn’t come with it." - R. Buckminster Fuller
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"Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away." - Marcus Aurelius
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3.22.2013
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.” ― Vince Lombardi
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." - Hal Borland
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale
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"Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the right to do the same." - Voltaire
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"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese proverb
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3.21.2013
"I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour beforehand." - Horatio Nelson
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It is bad manners to say, “You are welcome to your own opinion”; but it is the perfection of good fellowship to really mean it. - George Bernard Shaw
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." - Alfred North Whitehead
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"My knowledge is like a drop in a vast ocean of promise." - Tan Se
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"Death means nothing to us: when we are, death has not come yet, and when death has come, we no longer are." - Epicurus
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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” ― Helen Keller
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3.20.2013
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his Way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
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"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." - Paul Engle
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"It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing." - Anonymous
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"I’m not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It’s just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved." - Burton Hillis
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"Out yonder there is a huge world, which exists independent of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckons like a liberation." - Albert Einstein
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith." -- Ronald Reagan
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"All happiness depends on courage and work." - Honoré de Balzac
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3.19.2013
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion." - Jean de La Fontaine
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"Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace." - the 14th Dalai Lama
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"I look to the future, because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life." - George Burns (at age 87)
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"All is flux, nothing stands still." - Heraclitus
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"When I saw something that needed doing, I did it." - Nellie Cashman
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"Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. Time has ceased, space has vanished. We now live in a global village." - Marshall McLuhan
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"As is a tale, so is life; what matters is not how long it is but how good it is." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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3.18.2013
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got." - Janis Joplin
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" - George Eliot
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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"The duration of our passions no more depends upon our own will than does the duration of our life." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do." - Raymond Nash
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"Everything is magic in relations between man and woman." - Paul Valéry
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"The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on earth." - Wilfred Grenfell
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"The future is there, looking back at us, trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become." - William Gibson
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3.17.2013
"If dreams all came true, one would fear to fall asleep." - Neil Eskelin
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"I’d rather see folks doubt what’s true than accept what isn’t." - Frank A. Clark
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"The eye--it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, wherever they be. Against or with our will." - William Wordsworth
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"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau
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"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle." - Arthur Rubinstein
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"For me the greatest beauty always lay in the greatest clarity." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
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"Books may well be the only true magic." - Alice Hoffman
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3.16.2013
"I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud." - Helen Keller
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"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau
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"Youth is not a time of life--it is a state of mind." - Anonymous
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"l expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn
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"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." - Anonymous
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." - Shakespeare
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"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." -- George Burns
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3.15.2013
"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better." - Edgar Watson Howe
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"The only period in life that should give us cause for uncertainty is that brief stretch from the cradle to the grave." - Anonymous
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"The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside." - Dag Hammarskjold
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"Take away memory, and your love will no longer exist." - Jessica Julian
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -- Leo Tolstoy
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"Age is no guarantee of maturity." - Lawana Blackwell
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3.14.2013
"It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch.
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“One is easily fooled by that which one loves." Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
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"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson
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"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill
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