Unusual Quotes for March, 2008
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more and all good things are yours! Swedish Proverb
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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. - Herman Melville
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AN OPEN MIND - Two proverbs about open minds. Which is right?
A mind is like a parachute--it only works when it's open. - Anonymous
and...
An open mind is like a sewer. Everything drains into it and nothing good comes out. - Anonymous
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass - it's about learning to dance in the rain. Anonymous
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde _____________________________________________________
...The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
William M. Evarts
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. Unknown
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Unknown
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Unknown
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We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
Dean Rusk
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Unknown
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. Unknown
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it Unknown
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh
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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Unknown
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I grow old learning something new every day. Unknown
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Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end. What will matter is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave...not your success, but your significance. Unknown
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A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh!'" --Conan O'Brien |
