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"If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny."

Dane Cook

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“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

William Somerset Maugham

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"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."

George Washington

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“The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian”


Thomas Jefferson

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Ehm... my word was unimproved, luv, not uninformed...

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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Heraclitus

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... Where you taking your word from, luv?? :lol:


The last word to be used is "unimproved".

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Oops!! For some reason I was about three pages out...don't know what happened there...sorry :confused: Anyway...

'Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.'

Henry David Thoreau

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If you clicked on "View First Unread" then it took you to where you last left off and you forgot to go forward to the last page. I've done that already in the past so I'm real careful now to remember to continue to the very last post... :lol:


"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

Martin Luther

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That must have been it then...doh!!??!! :embarasse

'Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live'

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

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“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.”


Katharine Hepburn

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"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible."

Sallust

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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

-Agnes Repplier

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"Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring."

Jean Henri Fabre

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“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”

Mark Twain

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“The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.”

-Oscar Wilde

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"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong

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"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Steve Wright

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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

-M. Cartmill

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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

--Cary Grant




sasquatch I love that quote :whistling

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Thanks Clee !

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

A. J. Liebling

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Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.


-Linus Torvalds

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“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”

Doug Horton

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.


--Dirk Benedict

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I guess no one noticed that post #3784 was not linked to its prior post??


"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."

Andre Breton

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Yeah, I did, but decided to carry on regardless!

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Vernon Howard

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My bad on that 3784 :whistling


Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Blaise Pascal

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.


--Buddha

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"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."

Lewis Carroll

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.


-Mark Twain

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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran

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No matter Clee - you've probably seen all the things I've done like that...:whistling

'Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.'

Alexander Smith

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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.


-Ralph Waldo Emerson



Sasquatch you're my hero! :hug3

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"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

George Berkeley

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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.


--W. C. Fields

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"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."

Robert H. Schuller

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“Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.”


-Albert Einstein

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"Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments."

Ludwig Quidde