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“It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.” ~ Sam Levenson, humorist
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 1900 - 1944 ), French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, writer
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On Eid al-Fitr, May Allah’s blessings be showered on you! All the loving wishes for you today to bring much happiness your way. I wish you the gift of faith, the blessing of hope, and the peace of his love at Eid and always. May Allah acce…
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Sometimes it’s not the people who changes, it’s the mask that falls off. ~ Anon.
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“I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough.” ~ Mark Twain, humorist and writer
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“The fear of becoming a “has been” keeps some people from becoming anything.” ~ Eric Hoffer, writer and social critic
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” ~ Desmond Tutu
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - 2019 “These two things a man may choose, as long as stars shine up above. For the Silver Ring is Honor, and the Ring of Gold is Love.” ~ Anne Bishop, The Invisible Ring, p 309 ps. VaBeach - you are 100% correct
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“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as arti…
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Welcome the month of Ramadan with a heart filled with peace, harmony and joy. May the divine blessings of Allah protect and guide you
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The Holy month of Ramadan begins at sundown today. May Allah always guide you all throughout your journey in life. I wish this Ramadan will infuse you with courage that will help you be triumphant over the adversities of life. Happy Ramada…
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” ~Sam Levenson, prominent television personality, humorist, and bestsellin…
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“People in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place. Who is to decide what is their proper place?” ~ Frederic Douglass, November 1841, speech challenging Northern-style prejudice
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“Life doesn’t begin when you lose weight. Big dreams can be planned for and achieved in the bodies we have today, regardless of size or age.” ~ Deb Malkin, plus sized woman who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
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You are more than welcome, Natural 2013. My habit of collecting quotes is yet another of the benefits gifted me by the Herculean efforts of my parents to control my wayward youth. “Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame an…
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HE IS RISEN ! Happy Easter
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May God bless you with peace, joy and prosperity on this Passover and throughout your life.
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A thought to contemplate this Good Friday : “Faith is light in the darkness, help in sickness, blessing in tribulations, paradise in the crucifixion, and life amid death.” ~ Saint Ludovico of Casoria
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For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. ~ Opening line of the film, Song of Bernadette
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There was something about her that precluded laughter. Her exaltation was so genuine that the observer almost had the impression that he saw what the child saw. ~ line from the film, Song of Bernadette April 16th ~ Feast Day of Saint Berna…
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger, 4 BCE - 65 CE)
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Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. ~ Anon
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk you…
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“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” ~ Mae Jamison, physician, Nasa astronaut and first Black woman to travel into space
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“We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?” ~ Lydia Sigourney, poet during 2019 Women’s History Month
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“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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The shower is the place where grown men go to cry when they're afraid they can't keep the promise they made to their wives and children to always take care of them and don't want their family to see how afraid they are. ~ Anon.
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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless". ~ Jamie Paolinetti, American writer, director
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“We should remember the widow and the stranger and the orphan and the oppressed, because we were orphans and we were strangers and we were slaves.” ~ The Heart of Judaism, Daniel Burg, a Baltimore-area rabbi ps VAbeach - I do sometimes pos…
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Oops, thought my quote would post after midnight on the 4th. The 5th is Fat Tuesday. Forgive me. “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Choose who you want beside you as you walk down any path and any season of life, whatever may come. ~ Anon Happy Fat Tuesday!!
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“America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin.” ~ Jim Wallis, activist and writer i…
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“If we destroy creation, it will destroy us.” ~ Pope Francis, 2018
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“Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame and heat, day without sun, comb without honey, summer without flowers, winter without frost, sky without moon, a book without letters.” ~ Chretien de Troyes, late-12th-century French…
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For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. ~ Opening line of the film, Song of Bernadette
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“Peace be on you always,” Elyas replied, “and on all the People.” He hesitated, then added, “I will find the song, or another will find the song, but the song will be sung, this year or in a year to come. As it once was, so shall it be aga…
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“You are welcome to our fires. Do you know the song?” Elyas bowed in the same way, both hands pressed to his chest. “Your welcome warms my spirit, Mahdi, as your fires warm the flesh, but I do not know the song.” “Then we seek still,” the…
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“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! ~ Audrey Hepburn
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“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.” ~ Richard Cecil, (1748 - 1810), Anglican priest
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"Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." ~ Malachy McCourt, Irish actor-writer
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“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.” ~ Adolfo Bioy Casares, (The Invention of More) Argentine fiction writer and journalist
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“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.” ~ Adolfo Bioy Casares, (The Invention of More) Argentine fiction writer and journalist
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“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.” ~ G. K. Chesterton, writer
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken, “In Defense of Women” (1918)
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“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today,” ~ Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“All we say to America is, ‘Be true to what you said on paper.’ If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed…
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"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop . . .I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we…
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“I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to humankind’s problems. . . . For I have seen too much hate. [...] and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~ MLK Jr., SCLC C…
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“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe working to pull down the gigantic mountains of e…
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” ~ George Eliot, writer
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” ~ Freya Stark, British explorer and writer
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“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today,” ~ Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.” ~ Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine fiction writer and journalist
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“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” ~ Mitch Albom, journalist and broadcaster
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“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing — refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, writer Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays t…
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Eliot, poet
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha
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If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before. ~ Anon. @mias Simone is a very cogent writer. I was directed to her work by an ex-prof of mine: Christina Hoff Sommers. You might want to take a look at her most…
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“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir, writer and activist
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“You can get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you’re coming after it.“ ~ Michael Marshall, writer
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut, writer
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“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.” ~ Walter Scott, writer- historian
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History is but a cold and distant observer. Those of us who must face today have goals far more finite: We must mend our wounds, mourn our dead—and survive the winter. ~ Jim Butcher, GAIUS TAVARUS MAGNUS, EPILOGUE ~ First Lord's Fury, Code…
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.” ~ Nora Ephron, journalist, author and filmmaker
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."~ Mark Twain.
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last Man has breathed his last breath, t…
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. ~ Matthew 6:34
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 1900 - 1944 ), French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist
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“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”~ Dalai Lama
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“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.” ~ Ram Dass, Phd. Psychology and spiritual teacher
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“When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon, the stupid ones look at your finger.” ~ Mao Tse-tung ( Chairman Mao )
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Do unto others, then run. ~ Benny Hill, comedian
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BT - YOU'RE ON! The "holidays" will have to be Christmas, though. I'll try your single malt, if you try Single Barrel Jack Daniels with a Drew Estates Ligua or an Undercrown. Send me an email when you arrive in the area. “Sometimes dreams…
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Dear BT : Man Plans and God Laughs ~ A proverb very worthwhile to remember. Here is another: History is but a cold and distant observer. Those of us who must face today have goals far more finite: We must mend our wounds, mourn our dead—an…
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”if you are not seated at the table, you are on the menu.” ~ Michael Enzi, United States Senator from Wyoming,
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“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” ~ William Jennings Bryan, political orator
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“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ~ Mark Twain
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." ~ Robert Frost, poet
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"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good." ~ Ezra Pound, poet
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"Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." ~ Malachy McCourt, Irish actor-writer
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"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." ~ Charles R. Swindoll, American clergyman
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 1900 - 1944 ), French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist
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"What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view." ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Sci-Fi writer
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 1900 - 1944 ), French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist
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“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, monk and peace activist
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“Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Farewell, fe…
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Men use Love for sex; Women use Sex for love ~ Anon.
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“You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.” ~ Mary McCarthy,The Group (1962)
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@HFT " Stop It! For God's sake, Stop It ! " ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 1900 -…
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“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.” ~ Ram Dass, Phd. Psychology and spiritual teacher
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"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." ~ Charles R. Swindoll, American clergyman
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last Man has breathed his last breath, t…
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You go from us into a new becoming we rejoice for you and wish you an easy journey into the Light. The winds will speak to us of you the waters will mention your name snow and rain and fog, first light and last light all will remind us tha…
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“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer Dear Mias, Your remembrance reminds me that Freedom is not Free. Someone must always pay a price. I hope that particular price never…