June 30, 2004
“One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.”
Anonymous
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6:52 AM
June 29, 2004
“Before deciding you want to get up early it would be wise to determine if you are the bird or the worm.”
Anonymous
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6:36 AM
June 28, 2004
“Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.”
Susanne Curchod Necker
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7:02 AM
June 25, 2004
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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8:22 AM
June 24, 2004
“...the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
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8:28 AM
June 23, 2004
“You have to honor failure because failure is just the negative space around success.”
Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, quoted in Wired Magazine
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7:13 AM
June 22, 2004
“The mystery of government is not how Washington works, but how to make it stop.”
PJ O'Rourke
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9:25 AM
June 21, 2004
“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he sets out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.”
Cyril Connolly
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7:17 AM
June 18, 2004
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.”
Rollo May
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8:04 AM
June 17, 2004
“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.”
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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8:37 AM
June 16, 2004
“We never listen when we are eager to speak.”
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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8:57 AM
June 15, 2004
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
Mignon McLaughlin
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7:50 AM
June 14, 2004
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
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7:29 AM
June 11, 2004
“The act of sitting down and surrendering to a piece of writing defies the cult of speed.”
Carl Honore, Canadian journalist, In Praise of Slowness, 2004
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8:15 AM
June 10, 2004
“The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.”
Jacques Chardonne
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8:21 AM
June 9, 2004
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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8:14 AM
June 8, 2004
“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”
Chinese proverb
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7:18 AM
June 7, 2004
“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”
Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
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6:15 AM
June 4, 2004
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” unknown
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7:43 AM
June 3, 2004
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Buddha
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6:26 AM
June 2, 2004
“Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality.”
Henry David Thoreau
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12:02 PM
June 1, 2004
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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7:09 AM