**APOLOGISING **
***doesn't mean that ,
YOU
are
WRONG
and
the
OTHER
is
*RIGHT...
**it means that **
**YOU **
value the relationship
(Unknown)
*Classic Quotes by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) American author *
**All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. **
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**Conviction without experience makes for harshness. **
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**Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. **
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**I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. **
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**I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. **
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**I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. **
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**I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. **
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**It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. **
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**It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. **
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**Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. **
Classic Quotes by William Morris (1834-1896) English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer
**A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. **
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**I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. **
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**If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. **
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**Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide. **
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**So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. **
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**With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. **
*Classic Quotes by John Tyler (1790-1862) American president *
**Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. **
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**Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race. **
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**If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. **
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**Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. **
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**In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. (Explaining why he would not run for reelection.) **
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**Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. **
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***There comes a time in your life when you realise who matters, who doesnt, who never did and who always will,
so dont worry about the people from your past...theres a reason they didnt make it to your future
Classic Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) postimpressionist painter, born in the Netherlands.
**A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. **
*As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. *
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*Conscience is a man's compass. *
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*Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. *
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*Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. *
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*Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. *
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*Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. *
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*How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? *
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*I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. *
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*I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true. *
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Two Wolves
*One of the best ways to explain.....
*
**One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. **
He said, 'My son, the battle is between 'two wolves' inside us all.
**'One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, **
false pride, superiority, and ego.'
**'The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, **
truth, compassion and faith.'
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, 'Which wolf wins?'
***The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'
Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer
**Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. **
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**Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. **
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**Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. **
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**It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. **
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**It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. **
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**It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. **
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**People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. **
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**The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. **
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**The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. **
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**The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. **
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh (THE "LOL" FACTOR:))
Classic Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) **
**Danish poet and novelist
**Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. **
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**Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. **
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**Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. **
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**"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers." **
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**And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God. **
Classic Quotes by Federico Fellini (1920-1993) Italian film director
**A different language is a different vision of life. **
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**All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. **
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**Censorship is advertising paid by the government. **
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**Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. **
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**Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. **
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**It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. **
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**You exist only in what you do. **
(ROFL...as this piece fits some of the thoughts I have seen fuming on different threads---LOL LOL :):) )
A Legal Paradox:
**In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar business, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business. **
**Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was burnt to the ground. The church folk were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the bar owner sued the church authorities for $2million on the grounds that the church through its congregation & prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his bar shop, either through direct or indirect actions or means. **
**In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to the bar shop's demise. In support of their claim they referred to the Benson study at Harvard that inter-cessionary prayer had no impact ! **
***As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork and at the hearing and commented:
'I don't know how I am going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the
power of prayer and we have an entire church and its devotees that doesn't.' :):):):) (LOL)
Classic Quotes by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator
**Associate yourself with people of good quality, **
**for it is better to be alone than in bad company. **
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**Character is power. **
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**Character, not circumstances, makes the man. **
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**Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. **
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**I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. **
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**I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. **
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**I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. **
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**No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. **
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**Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. **
*Classic Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish poet and novelist *
**Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. **
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**Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. **
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**Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. **
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**"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers." **
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**And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God. **
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**Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer **
**Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. **
**--------------- **
**Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. **
**--------------- **
**Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. **
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**It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. **
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**It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. **
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**It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. **
**--------------- **
**People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. **
**--------------- **
**The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. **
**--------------- **
**The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. **
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**The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. **
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**There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which **
Classic Quotes by Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) U.S. actor
**A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. **
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**Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. **
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**Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. **
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**I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em. **
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**Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. **
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**Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. **
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**Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. **
and.........
All people are half actors
(Dana Andrews, American Filmstar)
A good actor lasts, but THAT appeal does not.
(Brigitte Bardot, French Film Actress)
For an actress to be a success she must have
the face of VENUS, **
*the brains of MINERVA,
the grace of TERPSICHORE, *
*the memory of MACAULAY, *
*the appearance of JUNO *
**and the hide of a RHINOCEROS.
(Ethel Barrymore, American Actress)
Acting is the matter of calculated instincts.
(Ernest Borgnine, American Filmstar)
Acting is the expression of neorotic impulse.
(Marlon Brando, American Filmstar)
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin'
about him, ain't listening! (looks like
someone I know!!!)
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An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
(The Observer-1956)
The better the actor the more stupid he is.
(Truman Capote, American writer)
A fan club is the group of people who tell
an actor he is not alone in the way he
feels about himself.
(Jack Carson, "The Wit Of The Theatre" 1968)
A good ham is an actor who enjoys giving
pleasure to people.
and
The real actor---like any real artiste--has a
direct line to the collective hearts.
(Bette Davis, American filmstar)
Acting is like prizefighting. The down-town
gyms are smelly, but that's where the champions are.
(Kirk Douglas, American filmstar)
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
This is the hardest kind of acting and it works
only if you look as if you are not acting at all.
(Henry Fonda, American filmstar)
Top 40 Fabulous Rules from the Life Book 2009
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food
that is manufactured in plants (factory)
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time for prayer
6. Play more games
7.. Read more books than you did in 2008
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk,
SMILE!!
Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their
Journey is all about. **
**12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do; keep your limits
14. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her
mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you** **
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away
like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and Laugh more
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Community:
25. Call your family often
26. Each day give something good to others
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.. Your family
and friends will. Stay in touch.
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Life:**
32. Do the right things
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33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful**
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34. GOD heals everything**
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35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change**
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36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up!**
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37. The best is yet to come**
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38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it**
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39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be HAPPY!!!!!!!**
Last but not the least:
- Do forward this to everyone you care about. ***
Re: QUOTATIONS GALORE
…Hell Hath No Fury like A Woman Scorned :k:
…God Helps those who Help Themselves…
.. The day, water, sun moon , night- I do not have to pay to enjoy these things…
..Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel..
..Imagination is the highest kite one can fly…
..Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrus ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. Th spring rains will come again..
Classic Quotes by Chester Allen Arthur (1830-1886) US President (21st), VP (20th)
**Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. **
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**I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. **
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**Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another. **
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**I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down. **
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**Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. **
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*Classic Quotes by Truman Capote (1924-1984) US writer *
**A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. **
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**Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms. **
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**All literature is gossip. **
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**Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. **
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**Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. **
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**Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. **
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**Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. **
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**Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. **
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***Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
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Classic Quotes by Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) US writer
**Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. **
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**Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. **
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**Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. **
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**You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. **
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**Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. **
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**One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. **
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***Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations
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The first "T" guard, known as the "cup", was used in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in cricket in 1974.
It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
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Classic Quotes by Al Capp (1909-1979) US cartoonist
**Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. **
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**Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. **
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**Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. **
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**Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. **
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**My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. **
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**Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. **
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**The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. **
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**The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. **
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**There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. **
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**Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. **
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Classic Quotes by Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US patriot
**He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. **
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**How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! **
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**It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. **
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**Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. **
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**The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. **
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***The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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*There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa *
You are not paid to work hard.
In fact, you are not paid for effort at all.
You are paid for results.
It's not what you do;
it's what you get done.
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson
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**Classic Quotes by H. G. Wells (1866-1946) English writer **
**A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. **
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**Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. **
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**Advertising is legalized lying. **
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**Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. **
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**And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere. **
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**Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. **
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**Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. **
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**Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. **
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***Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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*Classic Quotes by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist *
**The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. **
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**The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. **
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**The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. **
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**Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity) **
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**Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. **
Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which
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Classic Quotes by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Everything is self-evident.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
I think; therefore I am.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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Classic Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) postimpressionist painter, born in the Netherlands.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Conscience is a man's compass.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
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Classic Quotes by John Tyler (1790-1862) American president
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. (Explaining why he would not run for reelection.)
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
There comes a time in your life when you realise who matters, who doesnt, who never did and who always will,
so dont worry about the people from your past...theres a reason they didnt make it to your future
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Classic Quotes by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) American author
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Classic Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor (1930- )U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.
No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
Alaska
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska
Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .
Antarctica
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy % of all the fresh water in the world.. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
Brazil
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Canada
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village .'
Chicago
Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Detroit
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road any where.
Damascus , Syria
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
Istanbul , Turkey
Istanbul (AKA Constantinople) , Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
New York City
The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel..
Ohio
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is man made.
Pitcairn Island
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles.
Rome
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B..C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Siberia
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
S.M.O.M.
The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.MO.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.
Sahara Desert
In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
Spain
SPAIN literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there.
Roads
Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A: 1%, in Canada : 75%.
Texas
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas . It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
United States
The Interstate System requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Waterfalls
The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest waterfall) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet. It is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls
Classic Quotes by Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) German-American rocket expert
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Classic Quotes by William Morris (1834-1896) English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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Happiness is not something you find, It's something you create.
Nothing in this world is IMPOSSIBLE as the word is "I M POSSIBLE".
LIFE IS NO WHERE - can be read as - LIFE IS NOW HERE.
APOLOGISING doesn't mean that ,
you are wrong and the other is right ....
it means that YOU value the relationship
(Unknown)