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"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."

Victor Hugo

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“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”

--Marcel Pagnol

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So true, Clee!! :winky:


"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."

James A. Baldwin

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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

--Marjorie Holmes





K'lyn it seems so simple I agree!

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:winky:


“To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.”

Baroness Orczy

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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.


-Sitting Bull

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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

E. M. Forster

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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.


--Leo Tolstoy

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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.


-Jimi Hendrix

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Amen to that, Jimi!!! :)


"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

William Shakespeare

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It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner. :jossun:
Frank Zappa

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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.


--Damon Runyon

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"Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty."

Eugene Sue

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.


Pearl Bailey

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."

Robert Shea

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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

--Steven Wright

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"Four years ago, the escalators were a mess, basically the same as now."

Mike Israelsky, mall president

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.


Charles M. Schulz

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"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

Francis Bacon

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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."


Thomas Starkey

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Oh! Can we do that?? :arms: Cool!


"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

Benjamin Franklin

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.


Andy Warhol

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"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

Billy Joel

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Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.


George Carman

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"The face is the soul of the body."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.


Konrad Adenauer

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:nod: I swear, on some people that is God's truth!! :lol:


"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

Washington Irving

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”


Jamie Paolinetti




:cheesy: K'lyn you made me laugh

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:winky: Sad thing is ... it's so true!! :silly:


"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.


Pietro Aretino

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"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

Thomas Jefferson

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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

John Ruskin


... yeah, until you're stuck in four feet of snow and you can't find your freakin' car!!!

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.


Robert Frost

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"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."

William Langewiesche

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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

Francois Rabelais