5.31.2013

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

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"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like, and let the food fight it out inside." - Mark Twain

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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus

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"May your work be in keeping with your purpose." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out." - Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

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"Make me immortal with a kiss." - Christopher Marlowe

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5.30.2013

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head." - Andy Rooney

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"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down." - Mitch Hedberg

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"If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all." - John Cage

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"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." - James Thurber

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"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix

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"Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy." ~ Ralph Connor

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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” ― John F. Kennedy

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5.29.2013

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." ~ David Viscott

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"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward." ~ Princess Diana Spencer

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"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone." - Real Live Preacher

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"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances." - Jay Leno

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"We read frequently, if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own." - Harold Bloom

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." John Ruskin

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"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." - Peter Ustinov

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“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.” - Unknown

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5.28.2013

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other." - Honore de Balzac

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"We do not know what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are--that is the fact." - Jean-Paul Sartre

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"Artistic imagination must remain free." ~ Andre Breton

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"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt

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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Charles Kingsley

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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." - Rachel Carson

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5.27.2013

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." - Albert Einstein

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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." - Sigmund Freud

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“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.” ― Jennifer M. Granholm

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"If he works for you, you work for him." ~ Japanese Proverb

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"I am the mess you chose, the closet you cannot close." - Staind

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"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a bystander can judge of." - Jane Austen

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Freedom isn't free. Thank you to all veterans, past and present, for your sacrifices, for our freedom.

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5.26.2013

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." - Lorraine Hansberry

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"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

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"I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it." - from the movie "Great Expectations" (1998)

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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

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"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go." - Sylvia Robinson

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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten

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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." ~ George Herman ("Babe") Ruth

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"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Whenever you fall, pick something up." ~ Oswald Avery

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"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg

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"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else." ~ Mae West

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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom..” ― Marcel Proust

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5.25.2013

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

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"Everybody needs somebody." - Mahalia Jackson

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"Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new to emerge." ~ Eckhart Tolle

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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." ~ Mark Twain

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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau

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"Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!" - Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan

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5.24.2013

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille

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"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight." - Robin Green

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"Believe you can, and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." ~ Gandhi

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"To play it safe is not to play." ~ Robert Altman

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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ― Thomas A. Edison

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"Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere." - Margaret Wise Brown

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5.23.2013

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." - Robert Benchley

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"You learn a lot about people when you play games with them." - Laura Moncur

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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith

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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." ~ Aristotle

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“Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.” - Ben Jonson

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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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5.22.2013

“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.” ― Leo Buscaglia

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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~ Malcolm Forbes

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"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. " - Robert Heinlein

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"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon

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"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary

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"The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway." ~ Dr. Kent M. Keith

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"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope

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5.21.2013

"All generalizations are false, including this one." ~ Mark Twain

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"We do not laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh." ~ William James

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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." - Jesse Stuart

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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end." ~ Henry Miller

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"Hold plans lightly, like you'd hold a feather. Then when the unexpected happens, letting go is easy." ~ Zen Moments

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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

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5.20.2013

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner

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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau

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"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow." ~ Swedish proverb

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

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5.19.2013

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" - George Carlin

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"Life is what we make it--always has been, always will be." ~ Grandma Moses

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"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive." ~ Jean Paul Richter

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"If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in." ~ Marianne Williamson

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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle

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"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey

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"We are what we believe we are." - C. S. Lewis

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"I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are." - Frances Moore Lappe

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~ Albert Einstein

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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

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"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." ~ G.K. Chesterton

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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

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"Do your thing and don't care if they like it." - Tina Fey

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5.18.2013

"If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity." ~ Alex Bogusky

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"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know." ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"The impossible is often the untried." ~ Jim Goodwin

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"The world's perverse, but it could be worse." - Mona Van Duyn

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“ We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ― Walt Disney

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"If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you." - Gary Paulsen

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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ― Booker T. Washington

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5.17.2013

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." - Abigail Van Buren

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"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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"To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character." - Marie Leneru

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"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge." - Edward Chilton

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"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa

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"Perseverance does not equal worthiness." - Lawrence Kaplow

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ― Helen Keller

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5.16.2013

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." - Marian Evans

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"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." - Robert Jackson

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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead." - James Thurber

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“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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"His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs." - Laura Hillenbrand

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"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those others that have been tried from time to time." ~ Winston Churchill

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5.15.2013

"If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em." - Yogi Berra

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"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." - Margaret Halsey

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"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Jane Caminos

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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." - Frank Zappa

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"It is better to wear out than to rust out." - Bishop Richard Cumberland

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"Compassion is the radicalism of our time." ~ Dalai Lama

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5.14.2013

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

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"People have one thing in common: they are all different." ~ Robert Zend

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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them." ~ M. Scott Peck

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"Life is a constant challenge to know oneself." ~ Osho

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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

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"Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish." - Euripides

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"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke

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"Often and more happily, our days are calm and our creativity bubbles along like a gentle stream, delightful but not dramatic." ~ J. Cameron

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5.13.2013

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." - Unknown

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"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." ~ Grace Hansen

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Seneca

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"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are." ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." ~ Tallulah Bankhead

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"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say." - Samuel Johnson

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"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." - Max L. Forman

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5.12.2013

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level." - Dana Carvey

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"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." - Latin Proverb

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“There's a story behind everything... But behind all your stories is always your mother's story... Because hers is where yours begins.” ― Mitch Albom

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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

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"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can." - Og Mandino

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"We only know of one duty, and that is to love." - Albert Camus

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“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” - George S Patton

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"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

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"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" - Jay Leno

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"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth." - Barbra Streisand

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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side. I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." - Bethania McKenstry

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"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." - Elizabeth Goudge

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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich

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"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." - Richard P. Feynman

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5.11.2013

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means." - Sallust

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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." - Arthur C. Clarke

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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson

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"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars." - Hobart Brown

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"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - Saint Augustine

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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ― Maya Angelou

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“Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.” - Louisa May Alcott

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5.10.2013

"The things that we love tell us what we are." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

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"Many men cry 'Peace! Peace!' but they refuse to do the things that make for peace." ~ Martin Luther King

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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." - Oprah Winfrey

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"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone." - Amy Vanderbilt

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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." - Maria Montessori

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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart

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5.09.2013

"Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves." ~ Robert Lembke

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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard

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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions." - Dorothy Day

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"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it." - Doris Day

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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

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“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers--but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.” ― Katharine Hepburn

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5.08.2013

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." - Don Marquis

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"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

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“Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar.” - William Shakespeare

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"There ain't no sin, and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." - John Steinbeck

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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” ― Nelson Mandela

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“The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.” - Merlin Olsen

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"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older." - Randy Pausch

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5.07.2013

"Stoop, and you'll be stepped on; stand tall, and you'll be shot at." - Carlos A. Urbizo

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"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." - Sally Kempton

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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day--like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing." - Evan Esar

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"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

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"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people." - Robert Benchley

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"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen

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"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." - Rose Kennedy

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5.06.2013

"If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes." - Robert Redford

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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen

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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly, unless one has plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome

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"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia." - Meryl Streep

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"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing." - George Washington

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"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men." - Marcus Valerius Martialis

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"This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth." - Donald Cargill

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"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." - Marie de Sevigne

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5.05.2013

"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra

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"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway

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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.” ~ Gerard Way

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“It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold.” ~ Gandhi

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Student: "What happens after death? Master: "I don't know." Student: "How can you not know, You're a Zen Master." Master: "Yes, but I am not a dead one.”

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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful.” ~ Denis Waitley

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“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu

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“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.” ~ Khalil Gibran

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“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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Five years ago today, the most wonderful, determined little boy entered our world. Happy birthday, Joshua Kristopher Lent--I love you!

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“When the world says give up, hope whispers: 'try it one more time.'” ~ Anon

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“Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ~ Dalai Lama

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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." ~ Carl Sagan

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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." - Norman Mailer

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5.04.2013

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." ~ Confucius

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"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." ~ Picasso

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"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." ~ Confucius

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"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." ~ Eckhart Tolle

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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” ― Winston Churchill

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"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories." - Hilary Mantel

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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." - Niccolò Machiavelli

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5.03.2013

"Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness." ~ Alan Cohen

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"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others." ~ Lao Tzu

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"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier." ~ Christopher Columbus

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"Rain does not fall on one roof alone." ~ Cameroon proverb

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"We do not attract that which we want; we attract that which we are." ~ Wayne Dyer

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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." ~ Louisa May Alcott

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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." ~ Maya Angelou

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5.02.2013

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." ~ Hector Berlioz

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"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned." ~ Dalai Lama

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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ― Colin Powell

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"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far." ~ Mae West

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"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness." ~ Eckhart Tolle

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“We rate ability in people by what they finish, not by what they attempt.” - Donald Kircher

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"When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you." ~ Lao Tzu

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"Lots of things that couldn't be done have been done." ~ Charles Auston Bates

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5.01.2013

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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"When in doubt, be yourself." ~ Anonymous

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"Prepare no one's heart but your own and be kind." ~ Amy Jeanette

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

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"Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old." - Marianne Williamson

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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." - Anne Michaels

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"Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it." - Seth Godin

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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life." - Goethe

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