"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to
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"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that a purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."Leo Buscaglia (American Lecturer & Author) |
Dogs have owners. Cats (and alpacas) have staff. |
"In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind." - Turing Award lecture of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 1930 - 2002 |
| Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. |
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. |
| Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. |
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. |
| Someone who thinks logically, provides a nice contrast to the real world. |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.. -- Thomas A. Edison |
| "Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms." - Norman Vincent Peale |
| "When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly." - Anonymous |
| "You can never have too many wombs..." Eric Hoffman former president of Calpaca. |
"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim" - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 1930 - 2002 |
| "This is the law of benefits between men: the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought to never forget what he has received." Seneca |
| "You've got to get up every morning with determination
if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." George Horace Lorimer |
| "Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do
everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they
want to do." Kathleen Winsor |
| "Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives." Jim Rohn |
| "Don't listen to those who say, "It's not done that way." Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a chance." Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, "They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections..." I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect." Neil Simon |
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only
with with Katharine Hepburn |
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you
have to, with Marcus Aurelius |
"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, - Robin Morgan |
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow,
one can remain Edith Warton |
"What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised." - Colette |
"There's a subtle but very powerful difference between 'I
have to do this' - "Body Fueling" by Robyn Landis |
| "Free will is the power of choosing [between] good and evil." Origen |
| "True love cannot be found where it doesn't exist...And it cannot be hidden where it truly does exist." Anonymous |
| "I've learned...that one of the best classrooms in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.- Anon |
| "The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem." Dr. Laura Schlesinger |
| "The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is afraid of failure, will succeed." Gordon Parks |
| "Remember: when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something." Amish School Saying |
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." Buddha |
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." Erica Jong |
"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen." Loretta Girzartis |
| "Be the person your dog thinks you are." Anonymous |
| "The secret to life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do." Henry Moore - Sculpture |
| Why not go out on a limb... that is where the fruit is. Anon |
| "We don't see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are." - Anais Nin |
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle |
Quotes on Government Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. --G. Gordon Liddy speaking for Bob Hansen Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist(1801-1850) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. --Ronald Reagan I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. --Joseph Sobran, former Editor of the National Review In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire(1764) No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --Mark Twain The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill The difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain |
