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Keep your friends close but your enemies closer
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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You can avoid your enemies but you are stuck with your relatives.
"I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I dont know what to feed it." Ramblings of a retired senile mind.
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Often, " home is where the hurt is "
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

Carpe Diem!

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Blood is thicker than water.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
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think ah
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" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

Carpe Diem!

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Live in the Moment.
“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.”
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Don't count your chickens...
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
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Never count your winnings until the game is over.
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That's about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Truth IS stranger than fiction...
" We don't see things as they are but as we are "

Carpe Diem!

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:lol: Those who laugh last...laugh best.
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Those who whine and kvetch EXCESSIVELY get ignored...( mother was right, laugh and the world laughs w/you, cry, and etc.) :)
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Never put sticky mousetraps where your dog can get into them.
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Post by Carla Hurst-Chandler »

Bighuey wrote:Never put sticky mousetraps where your dog can get into them.
LMAO...now there is a visual :lol:

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