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Libellus wrote: “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” - Robet HeinLein
My cat likes that one! ;)
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HeraSee wrote:"Most of the domesticated primates of Terra did not know they were primates. They thought they were something apart from and 'superior' to the rest of the planet...."
-Robert Anton Wilson
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“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over" - Sir Walter Scott

that was my morning this morning. i wanted to get up at 9 and ended up waking up at 11:30 =x
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knightss wrote:“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over" - Sir Walter Scott

that was my morning this morning. i wanted to get up at 9 and ended up waking up at 11:30 =x
That is my morning every morning. ;)

He's a smart man. :P
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"To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess." - Henry David Thoreau

"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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Scott Hughes wrote:"To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I really,really like that Scott! :D Very wise words.
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"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
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Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah

~Black Sabbath
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I just ran across this quote by Voltaire, supposedly his last words before dying:

"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. "
Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest to renounce Satan
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And these are supposedly the last words of Oscar Wilde:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. "
One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.
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Erasmus_Folly wrote:And these are supposedly the last words of Oscar Wilde:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. "
Ahh Wilde, what a delightful wit he was.
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Erasmus_Folly wrote:And these are supposedly the last words of Oscar Wilde:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. "
hahaha
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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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I ran across this quote this morning which I liked:

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."

~Robert Fulghum
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Erasmus_Folly wrote:I ran across this quote this morning which I liked:

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."

~Robert Fulghum
I never saw that quote before, but I love it. It's funny and wise.
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