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Friday, April 11, 2003 |
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated." --Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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"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)
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Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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"Health is not simply the absence of sickness." --Hannah Green
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
"The unspoken word never does harm." --Kossuth
12:37:19 PM
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003 |
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." --Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
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Monday, April 07, 2003 |
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." --Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
12:42:31 PM
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." --Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." --Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." --Bethania McKenstry
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs." --Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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"To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd." --Thomas Herrick
9:30:42 AM
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Monday, March 17, 2003 |
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." --Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." --P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
"Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome." --Marion Parker
10:21:45 AM
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"Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut." --Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
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Monday, March 10, 2003 |
"Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances." --La Fontaine
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"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful." --Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
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Saturday, March 08, 2003 |
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." --Patricia Neal
10:47:21 AM
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Friday, March 07, 2003 |
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." --Sir Richard Steele
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Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." --Robert Fripp
10:50:06 AM
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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." --Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others." --Baltasar Gracian
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Saturday, March 01, 2003 |
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." --Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." --Bruce Barton
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Saturday, February 22, 2003 |
"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse." --Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
10:19:22 AM
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"They always talk who never think." --Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
10:18:22 AM
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." --Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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"When you're through changing, you're through." --Bruce Barton
10:16:56 AM
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Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." --Sidney J. Harris
9:25:20 AM
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke." --Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
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Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do." --Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." --Unknown
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Monday, February 17, 2003 |
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell
12:52:25 PM
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"Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
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Saturday, February 15, 2003 |
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." --Walter Anderson
10:42:30 AM
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"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." --Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
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Thursday, February 13, 2003 |
"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." --Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - )
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Monday, February 10, 2003 |
"Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to." --Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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Saturday, February 08, 2003 |
"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things." --Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
11:36:20 AM
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"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing." --R. D. Hitchcock
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Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." --Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few." --Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
10:16:08 AM
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Wednesday, February 05, 2003 |
"He who would travel happily must travel light." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003 |
"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)
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Monday, February 03, 2003 |
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves." --Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
11:49:31 AM
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"Fools admire, but men of sense approve." --Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
11:45:56 AM
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." --Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." --Ralph Charell
12:44:15 PM
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"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much." --John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
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Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." --George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them." --Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." --Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Monday, November 18, 2002 |
"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old." --Edward Fitzgerald
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Friday, November 15, 2002 |
"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly." --Edwin P. Whipple
12:54:02 PM
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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." --Herbert Agar
12:52:38 PM
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Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
"We are what we repeatedly do." --Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
10:26:35 AM
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"Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen." --Anonymous
10:25:57 AM
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Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" --Dr. Robert Schuller
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"A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." --Caskie Stinnett
1:47:54 PM
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." --Arab Proverb
1:12:28 PM
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"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." --Kenneth Hildebrand
1:10:40 PM
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"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." --Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." --Madeleine L'Engle, in New York Times, 1985
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Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." --William Cowper
2:13:15 PM
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." --George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
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Corning Inc. is closing optical-fiber plants in Australia and Germany and cutting an extra 2,200 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its global payroll, as it scrambles to rebound from an alarming slowdown in the telecommunications industry.
The overhaul was announced Wednesday as the world's biggest maker of optical fiber and cable posted a third-quarter loss of $260 million, or 25 cents a share, compared with a loss of $220 million, or 24 cents a share, in last year's third quarter.
It was the sixth quarterly loss in a row for Corning, which also warned of continuing weakness in the fourth quarter in the optical fiber and cable business.
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"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others." --Baltasar Gracian
12:14:54 PM
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"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." --King Charles I, of England
"Don't apologize. Don't explain." --jrr
12:13:46 PM
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"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." --Antisthenes
12:12:37 PM
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"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them." --Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." --Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
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Monday, October 28, 2002 |
"I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased." --Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love." --Karl von Bonstetten
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." --Arnold Palmer
1:50:12 PM
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"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." --Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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"A friend is a gift you give yourself." --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1895)
1:47:26 PM
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." --Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
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"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." --Soren Kierkegaard
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." --Douglas Adams
1:43:23 PM
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"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." --Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death." --Dave Barry
1:38:42 PM
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Friday, October 18, 2002 |
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." --Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
11:27:45 AM
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Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." --Sir Richard Steele
12:15:04 PM
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." --W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Monday, October 14, 2002 |
"Make your bargain before beginning to plow." --Arab Proverb
12:53:08 PM
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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy." --Tom Robbins
12:51:46 PM
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Friday, October 11, 2002 |
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow." --Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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"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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Thursday, October 10, 2002 |
"Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome." --Marion Parker
9:16:20 AM
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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." --e e cummings
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." --Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Monday, October 07, 2002 |
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." --Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
12:39:29 PM
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"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." --Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
12:38:03 PM
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." --Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
12:36:25 PM
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." --Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." --Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
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Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
"One should count each day a separate life." --Seneca (3 BC - 65 AD)
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Monday, September 30, 2002 |
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
11:27:54 AM
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"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. --Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
11:25:56 AM
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"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses." --Margaret Millar
11:24:23 AM
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Friday, September 27, 2002 |
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful." --Warren Buffett
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Thursday, September 26, 2002 |
"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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Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
"We only do well the things we like doing." --Colette, Prisons and Paradise, 1932
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. --Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." --Michael Pritchard
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Wednesday, September 04, 2002 |
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" --John Locke (1632 - 1704)
11:22:12 AM
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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." --Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
11:19:07 AM
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." --Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
11:16:11 AM
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." --George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Friday, August 30, 2002 |
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." --Walter Anderson
11:55:20 AM
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"Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts." --Georges Rouault
11:54:07 AM
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." --Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
11:52:55 AM
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." --Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated." --Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
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"We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought." --Etty Hillesum
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Saturday, August 24, 2002 |
"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." --Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Friday, August 23, 2002 |
"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." --Victor Hugo
11:12:33 AM
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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
11:12:03 AM
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." --Walter Anderson
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
"Never spend your money before you have it." --Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth." --Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Friday, August 16, 2002 |
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." --W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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"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)
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"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." --Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." --Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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"It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be." --Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." --Charles Dickens
10:43:18 AM
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"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing." --Henry S. Haskins
10:42:46 AM
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." --Epictetus (50 AD - 138 AD)
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"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods." --Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." --Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by." --Ken Kesey
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Saturday, August 10, 2002 |
"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." --Kathleen A. Sutton
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Friday, August 02, 2002 |
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Thursday, August 01, 2002 |
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." --Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
"Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee." --Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
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Monday, July 29, 2002 |
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There are four hats of creation: Artist, scientist, designer and engineer. Every profession has all four of those hats in it, but in different proportions. Scientist sees true or false. Engineer sees good or bad. Designer sees cool or uncool. Artist sees things as important or boring." --Rich Gold [via Dan Gillmore]
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Saturday, July 27, 2002 |
"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money." --William Lyon Phelps
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"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at." --Carlos A. Urbizo
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"Between every stimulus and response there lies a space. In that space we have the freedom to choose our response. In that freedom to choose lies our potential for growth." --I paraphrased this quote from Viktor Frankl.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." --Epictetus (50 AD - 138 AD)
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Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure." --Sol Hurok
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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." --H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Monday, July 22, 2002 |
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." --Harold Taylor
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"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse." --Francis Quarles
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Saturday, July 20, 2002 |
"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." --Unknown
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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control." --Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Friday, July 19, 2002 |
"Predicting rain doesn't count, building arks does." --Warren Buffett
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"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life." --Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Thursday, July 18, 2002 |
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James (1842 - 1910)
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." --Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Monday, July 15, 2002 |
"Coeval with human speech and found among all peoples, poetry appeals to our sense of wonder, to our unending quest for answers to the timeless questions of who we are and why we are. " --Mark Mathabane, A Poet Can Lead Us Toward Change, Newsday, January 20, 1993
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." --Harrison Ford, quoted by Garry Jenkins in Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero
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"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." --Henri Matisse
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"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." --John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
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Saturday, July 13, 2002 |
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." --Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." --Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
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"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." --Eleanor Hamilton
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." --Ayn Rand
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Thursday, July 11, 2002 |
"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man." --William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
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Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
"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)
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Tuesday, July 09, 2002 |
"Remember, that if thou marry for beauty (or seek other false goals [jrr]), thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied." --Sir Walter Raleigh
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"The purpose of life is to fight maturity." --Dick Werthimer
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Monday, July 08, 2002 |
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n. Power based on intangible or indirect influences such as culture, values, and ideology.
The US's best soft power analyst is Harvard's Kennedy School dean Joseph Nye, who defines the concept as "co-opting people rather than coercing them".
1:49:08 PM Google It!
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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." --Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." --George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
"If you can't be funny, be interesting." --Harold Ross
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Thursday, June 27, 2002 |
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." --Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped on link at a time." --Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 |
"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." --Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." --Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." --Agnes Repplier
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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." --Aprocrypha
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"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." --Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within, 1954
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Saturday, June 15, 2002 |
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." --Dr. David M. Burns
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"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others." --Baltasar Gracian
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"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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Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
"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
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Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." --Ernest Hemingway (1898 - 1961)
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Monday, June 10, 2002 |
"The way to become boring is to say everything." --Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for." --Earl Warren
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Friday, June 07, 2002 |
"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." --P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." --Alfred A. Knopf
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Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self." --Agnes Repplier
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Tuesday, June 04, 2002 |
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." --Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." --Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." --James M. Barrie
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Wednesday, May 29, 2002 |
"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things." --Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
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Friday, May 24, 2002 |
"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it." --Joyce Carol Oates
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Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." --Katherine Mansfield
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"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." --Rabbinical Saying
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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." --George Burns
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Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." --George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Monday, May 20, 2002 |
"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own." --Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Friday, May 17, 2002 |
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs." --Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." --Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." --Ray Bradbury, advice to writers
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"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." --Margaret Mitchell
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Monday, May 13, 2002 |
"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." --Mary Hirsch
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"Money , Religion and Turf. That's what all conflicts are about" --Adam Curry's mom
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Saturday, May 11, 2002 |
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." --W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." --Marilyn Ferguson
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Friday, May 10, 2002 |
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." --Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions." --Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
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Thursday, May 09, 2002 |
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." --John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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" . . . people want to believe that wherever there are differences there must be distinctions, even if we're sometimes making them up as we go along." --Geoffrey Nunberg, American linguist, The Way We Talk Now, 2001
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"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." --Arab Proverb
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"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses." --Margaret Millar
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Wednesday, May 08, 2002 |
"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." --Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Tuesday, May 07, 2002 |
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." --Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." --Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Monday, May 06, 2002 |
"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Sunday, May 05, 2002 |
"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing." --R. D. Hitchcock
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"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." --Joe Ancis
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Friday, May 03, 2002 |
"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." --Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time." --Louise Nevelson, 1980
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Sunday, April 28, 2002 |
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." --Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that." --Norman Mailer (1923 - )
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Saturday, April 27, 2002 |
"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence." --Jules Feiffer
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Friday, April 26, 2002 |
"I won’t grow up, I won’t slow down, I won’t act my age. And you can’t make me." --VodkaPundit on his 33rd Birthday
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"[T]o live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." --Cardinal Newman
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Thursday, April 25, 2002 |
"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so." --Jacopo Sannazaro
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Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
"Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway."
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