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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Mar 30 04, 19:04
Today's Quotes of the Day for March 30, 2004:
Friendships make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. ~ Cicero
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Mar 31 04, 19:34
Today's Quotes of the Day for March 31, 2004:
An idea is salvation by imagination. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 1 04, 06:14
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 1, 2004:
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. ~ Arthur Rubinstein
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ Hermann Hesse
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 2 04, 17:17
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 2, 2004:
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ~ H. L. Mencken
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 3 04, 11:19
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 3, 2004:
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? ~ Robert Browning
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ~ Arnold Toynbee
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 4 04, 08:25
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 4, 2004:
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ~ Beverly Sills
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. ~ Andre Agassi
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 5 04, 17:35
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 5, 2004:
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ~ Albert Schweitzer
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. ~ Belle Livingstone
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 6 04, 16:44
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 6, 2004:
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb
Desire, ask, believe, receive. ~ Stella Terrill Mann
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 7 04, 18:24
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 7, 2004:
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ~ Mark Twain
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ~ John W. Gardner
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 8 04, 17:46
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 8, 2004:
Out of the strain of the Doing, / Into the peace of the Done. ~ Julia Louise Woodruff
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. ~ Madame de Tencin
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 9 04, 16:19
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 9, 2004:
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. ~ Charles F. Kettering
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 10 04, 17:36
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 10, 2004:
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~ Nelson Mandela
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 11 04, 06:52
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 11, 2004:
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ~ John Churton Collins
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. ~ Mark Twain
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 12 04, 18:50
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 12, 2004:
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 13 04, 15:59
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 13, 2004:
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M. C. Escher
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. ~ John Muir
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 14 04, 18:41
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 14, 2004:
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. ~ Benjamin Cardozo
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. ~ John Keats
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 16 04, 05:17
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 15, 2004:
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. ~ Roy M. Goodman
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. ~ Spanish Proverb
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 16 04, 05:19
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 16, 2004:
Hold a true friend with both hands. ~ Nigerian Proverb
The truth is more important than the facts. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 17 04, 08:34
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 17, 2004:
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
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 18 04, 09:40
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 18, 2004:
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. ~ Adelle Davis
The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 19 04, 17:23
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 19, 2004:
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. ~ Seneca
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 21 04, 05:25
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 20, 2004:
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ~ Bell Hooks
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's Quotes of the Day for April 21, 2004:
In charity there is no excess. ~ Sir Francis Bacon
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~ Bruce Barton
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 23 04, 05:13
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 22, 2004:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ~ Pearl Buck
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. ~ Cicero
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Today's Quotes of the Day for April 23, 2004:
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 25 04, 08:49
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 24, 2004:
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. ~ Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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Today's Quotes of the Day for April 25, 2004:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. ~ John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 29 04, 05:10
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 26, 2004:
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ~ Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. ~ Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for April 27, 2004:
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~ Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ~ Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Apr 29 04, 05:13
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 28, 2004:
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~ Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for April 29, 2004:
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ~ Hasidic Saying
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 4 04, 05:17
Today's Quotes of the Day for April 30, 2004:
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. ~ John Burroughs
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 1, 2004:
Above all things, reverence yourself. ~ Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
We go where our vision is. ~ Joseph Murphy
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 4 04, 05:19
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 2, 2004:
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. ~ Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ~ George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 3, 2004:
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
[T]he best of us must sometimes eat our words. ~ J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 7 04, 05:24
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 4, 2004:
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. ~ Napoleon Hill
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. ~ Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 5, 2004:
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~ Jerry Chin
High thoughts must have high language. ~ Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 7 04, 05:27
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 6, 2004:
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~ Margaret Fairless Barber
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. ~ Chilo
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 7, 2004:
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ~ Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. ~ Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 9 04, 18:25
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 8, 2004:
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
What you cannot enforce, do not command. ~ Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 9, 2004:
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ~ Welsh Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory. ~ Chinese Proverb
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 13 04, 05:14
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 10, 2004:
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James (1842 - 1910)
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 11, 2004:
No legacy is so rich as honesty. ~ William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well that Ends Well", Act 3 scene 5
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 13 04, 05:18
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 12, 2004:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 13, 2004:
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 19 04, 05:26
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 14, 2004:
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~ William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 15, 2004:
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. ~ William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 19 04, 05:28
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 16, 2004:
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. ~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 17, 2004:
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ~ Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. ~ William Hale White
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 20 04, 07:31
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 18, 2004:
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. ~ Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. ~ Scottish Proverb
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 19, 2004:
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. ~ Unknown
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~ Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 21 04, 05:16
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 20, 2004:
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. ~ John Muir (1838 - 1914)
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. ~ Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 21, 2004:
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. ~ Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~ Chinese Proverb
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 26 04, 19:23
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 22, 2004:
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. ~ Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 23, 2004:
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ~ Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 26 04, 19:29
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 24, 2004:
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~ Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. ~ Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 25, 2004:
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~ James Feibleman
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 30 04, 08:53
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 26, 2004:
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ~ Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. ~ W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 27, 2004:
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end. ~ Dr. Thomas Dooley
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 30 04, 08:55
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 28, 2004:
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ~ Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. ~ Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 29, 2004:
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. ~ Moliere (1622 - 1673)
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. ~ Robert Bresson
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 5 04, 07:30
Today's Quotes of the Day for May 30, 2004:
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. ~ Robert Bresson
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. ~ Moliere (1622 - 1673)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for May 31, 2004:
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ~ Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 5 04, 07:35
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 1, 2004:
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ~ Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. ~ Evenius
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 2, 2004:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ~ Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 5 04, 07:42
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 3, 2004:
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Rose Kennedy
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 4, 2004:
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. ~ Alan Alda (1936 - )
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. ~ Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 12 04, 07:06
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 5, 2004:
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! ~ Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 6, 2004:
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. ~ Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 12 04, 07:09
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 7, 2004:
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. ~ Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 8, 2004:
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. ~ Krishnamurti
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ~ Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), O Magazine, December 2003
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 12 04, 07:13
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 9, 2004:
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. ~ Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~ Dutch Proverb
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 10, 2004:
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. ~ Italian Proverb
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ~ T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 18 04, 16:44
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 11, 2004:
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~ Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ~ Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 12, 2004:
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ~ Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ Charles Du Bos
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 18 04, 16:49
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 13, 2004:
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. ~ Dan McKinnon
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 14, 2004:
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 18 04, 16:55
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 15, 2004:
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. ~ Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. ~ Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 16, 2004:
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 18 04, 17:01
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 17, 2004:
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ~ Chilo
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. ~ Tom Stoppard
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 18, 2004:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 20 04, 15:45
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 19, 2004:
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~ Arab Proverb
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 20, 2004:
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~ Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. ~ Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 29 04, 05:09
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 21, 2004:
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~ Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ~ Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 22, 2004:
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. ~ Leon Tec, M.D.
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 29 04, 05:12
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 23, 2004:
He who would leap high must take a long run. ~ Danish Proverb
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 24, 2004:
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ~ Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ~ Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jun 29 04, 05:15
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 25, 2004:
They can conquer who believe they can. ~ Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ~ Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 26, 2004:
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~ Norman Podhoretz
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 1 04, 05:01
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 27, 2004:
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. ~ The laws of Manu
The ones that matter the most are the children. ~ Lakota proverb
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 28, 2004:
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. ~ Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. ~ Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 1 04, 05:03
Today's Quotes of the Day for June 29, 2004:
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... ~ Trieu Thi Trinh
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Today's Quotes of the Day for June 30, 2004:
Energy is eternal delight. ~ William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Man is what he believes. ~ Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 5 04, 16:50
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 1, 2004:
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. ~ Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 2, 2004:
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. ~ Saadi (1184 - 1291)
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ~ John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 5 04, 16:53
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 3, 2004:
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. ~ George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. ~ J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 4, 2004:
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. ~ Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. ~ Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
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Posted by: Don Jul 5 04, 18:19
"Why should I tarry?
In destinies sad or merry,
True men can but try"
~Sir Gawain~~
from
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 5 04, 19:21
Excellent quote, Don!
Thanks!
Cleo :)
Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 7 04, 06:22
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 5, 2004:
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. ~ Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 6, 2004:
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ~ William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do. ~ Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 9 04, 07:37
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 7, 2004:
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. ~ Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. ~ Albert Guerard
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 8, 2004:
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ~ Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 12 04, 17:32
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 9, 2004:
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. ~ Paul Brown (1908 - 1991)
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. ~ Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 10, 2004:
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. ~ William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
What we play is life. ~ Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 12 04, 17:36
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 11, 2004:
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~ Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ~ Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 12, 2004:
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Don't fall before you're pushed. ~ English Proverb
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 16 04, 06:54
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 13, 2004:
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. ~ Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. ~ Thomas Sowell
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 14, 2004:
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ~ George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. ~ Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 16 04, 06:58
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 15, 2004:
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 16, 2004:
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. ~ George Melton
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 22 04, 19:20
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 17, 2004:
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ~ Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. ~ Ed Macauley
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 18, 2004:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. ~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
When anger rises, think of the consequences. ~ Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 22 04, 19:23
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 19, 2004:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. ~ Elizabeth Stone
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 20, 2004:
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. ~ Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
Vigorous writing is concise. ~ William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 22 04, 19:26
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 21, 2004:
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. ~ Joseph F. Newton
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 22, 2004:
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ~ Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ~ John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 25 04, 17:08
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 23, 2004:
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. ~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. ~ Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 24, 2004:
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. ~ Anonymous
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jul 27 04, 05:16
Today's Quotes of the Day for July 25, 2004:
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. ~ Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. ~ Evenius
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Today's Quotes of the Day for July 26, 2004:
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ~ Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ~ Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jan 20 05, 06:19
"Some miracles only arrive when we're ready to receive them."
Posted by: Jox Jan 20 05, 13:52
"...When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes, to Dr John H Watson (The Sign of Four (1890))
Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jan 26 05, 16:16
It is a simple task to make things complex, and a complex task to make them simple." ~ Albert Einstein
Posted by: Perrorist Jan 26 05, 18:53
"Make things as simple as possible. But no simpler." - Albert Einstein (again)
Posted by: Nina Jan 29 05, 12:56
It’s eleven months since the crash but nobody’s anywhere near moving on. We’re frozen in a teardrop of time.
from Alan Gibbons - The Lost Boys Appreciation Society
Posted by: Jan 29 05, 17:16
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
Freud
PS This must come close to being my favourite quote of all time !
Love
ALan
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