Tag: quotes
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January 15, 2008 12:19 AM EST --
"They say such nice things about people at funerals that it makes me sad to realize I am going to miss mine by just a few days"
Garrison Keillor
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December 16, 2007 05:14 AM EST --
I keep these quotes in a notebook I use at work - they really are my mantra, or guide, or whatever!
"Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for . . . more
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November 23, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
" No Legacy is so rich as honesty"
William Shakespeare
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December 29, 2007 06:53 PM EST --
"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."
--Marcus Aurelius
The life of every man . . . more
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January 23, 2008 08:03 AM EST --
Henry Giles:
"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory."
Aldous Huxley:
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Oscar Hammerstein: . . . more
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February 19, 2008 06:10 PM EST --
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure"
Clarence Darrow
Is there anyone . . . more
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February 19, 2008 09:59 PM EST --
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley
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April 22, 2008 09:37 AM EDT --
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy"
Leo Buscaglia
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November 19, 2007 07:52 AM EST --
"It is a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things that you have long taken for granted"
Bertrand Russell
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November 28, 2007 08:29 AM EST --
"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal"
Mike Ditka
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November 28, 2007 08:34 AM EST --
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lesson from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future"
Journalist Sydney J. Harris
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November 30, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it is right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it"
Patrick Young
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November 30, 2007 02:24 AM EST --
"How foolish to think that we could ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance".
Noel Coward
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November 30, 2007 08:20 AM EST --
"History is a vast Early Warning System"
Norman Cousins
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December 03, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
"Life is not long, and too much of it should not be spent in idle deliberation of how it shall be spent"
Samuel Johnson
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December 03, 2007 09:53 AM EST --
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless"
Philosopher Eric Hoffer
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December 04, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
" Death, taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them"
Margaret Mitchell
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December 04, 2007 11:09 AM EST --
"feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it"
Author; William Arthur Ward
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December 05, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever"
Mark Twain
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December 07, 2007 08:23 AM EST --
" 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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