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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. - Anton Chekhov

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. - Stephen Colbert

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell. - Stephen Colbert

"Failure is not an option!"

Grace - Undeserved kindness.

"Failure is not an option!" - (borrowed and shared)

He knows nothing;
and he thinks he knows everything.
That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

Good morning! No matter where you are, no matter what you are doing, give thanks!
Best wishes for a peaceful and blessed Sunday! - Gary Dean Masters

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. - Sir Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Sir Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Sir Francis Bacon

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. - Sir Francis Bacon

And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. - J.R.R. Tolkien

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. - Michel de Montaigne

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles F. Kettering

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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . - Unknown

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. - Domitus Ulpian

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." - Harvey MacKay

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - (borrowed and shared)

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"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code." - Unknown

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. - Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Lenin (1870 - 1924)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. - Clarence Darrow

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - Bible, John 8:32

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. - Abraham Lincoln

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. - Robert McCloskey

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

Sometimes you have to forget about how you feel and remember what you deserve. - (borrowed and shared)

Your history is not your destiny.

Pray diligently! Work hard! Enjoy your surroundings. Smile. Stay focused. It will come in due time!

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. - T. S. Eliot

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

"Life is a series of commas, not periods." - Matthew McConaughey

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who hesitates is sometimes saved. - James Thurber

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Blame someone else and get on with your life. - Alan Woods

Language is the source of misunderstandings. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. - Margaret Thatcher

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. – Jean Sibelius

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale

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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Battome

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell

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"... there is a time and a season for everything. It may be a time of new beginnings, a time of growth, a time of reaping the harvest of hard work, or a time to rest. Trust this beautiful order. Everything in its time." :-)

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. - Albert Einstein

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage.
Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of
them." - Erma Bombeck

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you. - Isaiah 43:2

"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." - Katharine Hepburn

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will
fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. – Anonymous

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things
I haven't done." - Lucille Ball

Thank God it's Friday! - If you're reading this, give thanks! - G. D. Masters :-)

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House? - Will Rogers

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power." - Peter McWilliams

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower,

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr.,

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. – Anonymous

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be
happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by
fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of
achievement." - Golda Meir

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. - Dorothy Parker

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. - Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Dorothy Parker

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. - Dorothy Parker

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. - Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. - Sophia Loren

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself. – Anonymous

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and
receive without forgetting." - Elizabeth Bibesco

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"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." - Lynn Hall

I could prove God statistically. - George Gallup (1901 - 1984)

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. - William Hazlitt

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. - Mickey Friedman

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne

"When the beer bubbles, the masses forget their troubles."

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"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Sometimes in life... "... you have wanted/wished/hoped for something, ... time goes by... and you still have not received that thing. - A new life experience impacts you. You process through your new expereince and incorporate your new thoughts and beleifs.- From nowhere... what you have wanted/wished/hoped for starts flowing towards you, ... in greater abundance than you imagined... however, you realize that you know where you are, you know where you should be; ... what you have wanted/wished/hoped for is not what you want or need, not anymore. - The power is in knowing that your new life experience provided you with thoughts that will propell you in the direction you should be going... Dear Lord, I thank you! You allow ...all things to happen for a reason. To You I give thanks and praise!" - G. D. Masters

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Sometimes in life ... " a person comes into your life and leaves an imprint on you that you will remember forever. You may never know exactly why they came into your life; however you are appreciative and thankful! That imprint, is a peace that God has given you! That peace is a new part of you that ignites you! Drives you to move forward without fear! Moves you to go on, to go out, to go up, ... "

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Sometimes in life; "... you just have to go out there and make it happen!" - Gary Dean Masters

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. - J. K. Rowling

"We Either Make Ourselves Miserable or We Make Ourselves Strong." - Carlos Casteneda

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. - Ben Jonson

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. - Lee Iacocca

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. - Lewis Carrol

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. - Ambrose Bierce

"I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money." -Jim Cramer

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Let's have some new cliches. - Samuel Goldwyn

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Tom Robbins

You cannot plough a field by turning It over in your mind. – Anonymous

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford

"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a
necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities." - Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

I just left my best friend (C2) a voicemail asking her why do we not have an audio blog? I think Nicki would like it? Stan would listen to it for the laughs... So would Lesley... And maybe V as well? I bet there a few folks who would listen... Hmmmm....

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"What's bigger, your ego or your bank account?"

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. – H. L. Hunt

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." - Catherine Ponder

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. - Germaine Greer

You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Patty Hansen

You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you.
Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. - Hugh Macleod,

The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. - Margaret Thatcher

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. - Bob Wells

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice. - Albert Einstein

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The only way to find the limit of the possible is by going beyond them in to impossible. – Arthur C . Clarke

"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan

"... mind your step and watch what you say, before you know you'll be on your way... "

" ... you've worked all your life and you're not satisfied with the things you've found; when will you realize it will come around... "

"... You've worked all your life and your not satisfied with the things you've found; when will you realize it will come around... "

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not
really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." - Mitch Albom

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"... This town loves a winner! ... "

"... To God be the glory... "

There are more of them than us. - Herb Caen

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. - Herb Caen

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. - Herb Caen

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. - Zach Braff

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. - Herb Caen

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"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron

Behind every technological breakthrough there lies a dream. Behind every new product there lies a dream. Dreams create realities - through hard work. – Rolf Jensen

Sometimes in life... "...you have to tell people where their place is in your life... "

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. - Publilius Syrus

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. - Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - US Declaration of Independence

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. - Bertrand Russell

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. - Jeffery F. Chamberlain

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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs, Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie

"Storms make oaks take deeper root." - George Herbert

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout!" - George Herbert

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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a
present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

Do the kind of work that if at the end of the day, your employer had to pay you what you were worth, they couldn't afford to keep you, rather than for you to owe them. – Christine Brown