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Message 872717 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009, 2:11:12 UTC

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices." - William James

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Message 872881 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009, 14:58:24 UTC

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck

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Message 873425 - Posted: 7 Mar 2009, 16:46:08 UTC

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli

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Message 873491 - Posted: 7 Mar 2009, 18:59:39 UTC

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Message 874047 - Posted: 9 Mar 2009, 14:32:53 UTC

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
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Message 874097 - Posted: 9 Mar 2009, 18:23:28 UTC

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas

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Message 874766 - Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 1:42:57 UTC

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel de Montaigne

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Message 875097 - Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 2:42:25 UTC

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

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Message 875434 - Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 13:46:17 UTC - in response to Message 874097.  
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- Norman Douglas



"Reality is a convenient prop for people who can't handle drugs."

I think Hunter S. Thompson said that. Also,

"Reality sucks."

Frequently said by an old attorney work mate of mine, when reviewing case files.

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Message 875455 - Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 15:05:51 UTC

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

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Message 875482 - Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 16:19:12 UTC

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
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Message 875927 - Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 20:59:06 UTC

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden

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Message 876339 - Posted: 17 Mar 2009, 0:10:49 UTC

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment. - Henry David Thoreau

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Message 876537 - Posted: 17 Mar 2009, 15:18:36 UTC

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery
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Message 877768 - Posted: 21 Mar 2009, 6:08:13 UTC

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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BETTER THE WORLD ~ PAY IT FORWARD
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Message 878076 - Posted: 21 Mar 2009, 22:07:55 UTC

''It ain't rock 'n roll but I think she likes it'' - Some proper old dude.
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Message 878620 - Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 17:28:05 UTC

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker
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Message 878986 - Posted: 25 Mar 2009, 0:55:58 UTC

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy

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Message 879289 - Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 1:41:11 UTC - in response to Message 878620.  

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

I don't care what is written - or said about me - JUST BE PREPARED TO PROVE IT - (American Law)


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Message 879292 - Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 2:01:43 UTC

An ancient Philosopher once said -
" Learn from the mistakes of others - You will not live long enough to make all of them on your own"
too bad I didn't see this 60 years ago

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