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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - CS Lewis
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"Being honest may not always get you friends, but it will always get you the right friends"...a lovely and true quote I heard today.
You only live once.....so live!
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This may be on here already but it makes me smile... !!

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
The late Ronald Reagan actor/president.
Morphing into a misanthrope by existence in the human(?) race.....
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"I'm afraid of not being there"

From the movie "The Bofdyguard"
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"Brave people may not live forever, but cautious people never live at all"
You only live once.....so live!
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost
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If you can fool half the people all the time, thats good enough. Dont be a hog.
"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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“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa.
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I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in
miracles.
~Audrey Hepburn
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Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Ghandi
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"In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
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"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."
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episkopos wrote:"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."
@episkopos
It is customary to give credit for the quote to it's author ... you wouldn't want to be accused of plagerism I'm sure :wink:
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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