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Post by dreamer on Nov 27, 2011 4:48:24 GMT -5
Have a favorite quote you'd like to share? Post it in this thread.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 27, 2011 4:48:54 GMT -5
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~Hubert H. Humphrey
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Post by dreamer on Nov 27, 2011 4:49:57 GMT -5
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Post by dreamer on Nov 28, 2011 2:32:54 GMT -5
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
-Thomas A. Edison
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:36:06 GMT -5
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
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Post by dreamer on Nov 29, 2011 2:36:58 GMT -5
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
~unknown
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:06:41 GMT -5
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:07:09 GMT -5
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
~Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:07:34 GMT -5
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:08:10 GMT -5
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
~John F. Kennedy
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:08:41 GMT -5
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
~Bill Cosby
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:09:10 GMT -5
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
~Rex Hunt
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:09:52 GMT -5
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:10:22 GMT -5
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~Arnold Bennett
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:10:55 GMT -5
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:15:08 GMT -5
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:15:39 GMT -5
Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:16:20 GMT -5
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:16:51 GMT -5
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:17:33 GMT -5
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
~David Brinkley
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:18:01 GMT -5
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
~George S. Patton
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:18:44 GMT -5
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
~H. G. Wells
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:19:22 GMT -5
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~Mark Twain
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:19:49 GMT -5
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
~Dr. Seuss
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Post by dreamer on Nov 30, 2011 6:20:26 GMT -5
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis
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