tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170001712024-08-27T07:04:57.872-07:00Find Wisdom, Truth and Experience .. of the past, thru thier own words. <br>Keep thinking.... and think free!think_freehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08381523298966431958noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17000171.post-72967274894018839412007-11-15T16:52:00.000-08:002007-11-15T16:54:18.399-08:00

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways. - Edward de BonoFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626Upon those who step into the same rivers different

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Fashion can be bought, style one must possess. - Edna Woolman ChaseCustom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this

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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas. - Brenda Ueland, 1891 - 1985Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese proverbSlow down and enjoy life. It's not only the

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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. - Barbara WaltersThey spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910My father's name, when he came to America, was Kassell. At Ellis Island, the registrars changed it to Cohen. I honored my

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia LorenIn my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his

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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. - Arthur Christopher BensonEvery man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. - Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea. - Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, 1885 - 1962The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal. -

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931)Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881Don't ever become a

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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.I love whimsy, don’t you? If you’re going to be working for children, you need to do your best not to lose your childlikeness ... it's wonderful to be able to just be yourself.The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.- Henry Van Dyke, 1852 - 1933Be grateful

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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.- Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989 Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950 If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be

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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm

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A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism. - Burton RascoeIn a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an In-Depth Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex. - Frank MankiewiczHalf of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that

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Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. - Edmund RouseWhen life is kicking others in the teeth, become a dentist. - Kevin MeyersRemember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. - Walter Winchell, 1897 - 1972In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if

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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation. - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis, 1906 - 1975The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: They are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. -

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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. - Henry Steele Commager, 1902 - 1998It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. -

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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to aught that doth on time depend.Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as

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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery.... Once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than

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Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green. - Karen IrelandNatives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. - Mary Ellen KellyGood manners are like traffic rules for society. - Michael LevineIt is disappointing to realize

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John GuntherMy wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. - Aldo Leopold,

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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.They tell you that a tree

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Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. - Alan KeyesIt used to take courage - indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1808 - 1890Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian TracyIf the only prayer you said in your

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.Better is the enemy of good.Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries.The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it.The superfluous is very necessary.A witty

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