September 29, 2006
“The only real education is self-education.”
Buckminster Fuller
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12:16 AM
September 28, 2006
"That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."
Francis Bacon
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10:51 AM
September 27, 2006
"What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it."
Thomas Simmons
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12:50 AM
September 26, 2006
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”
Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
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12:49 AM
September 25, 2006
"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."
Patrick Young
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12:48 AM
September 22, 2006
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
Jacob Riis
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2:39 AM
September 21, 2006
“If tomorrow is your last day, and you spend it in anger and resentment against someone you care about, what a waste of time. I wonder how many days and years we waste waiting for another person to be sorry first.”
Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie
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2:30 AM
September 20, 2006
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
Edward Abbey
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12:26 PM
September 19, 2006
"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
Arnold H. Glasgow
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2:25 AM
September 18, 2006
"Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up."
Margaret Atwood
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12:10 AM
September 15, 2006
“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.”
Giorgio de Chirico
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1:58 AM
September 14, 2006
"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1:57 AM
September 13, 2006
“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”
Emily Dickinson
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1:55 AM
September 12, 2006
"Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence."
Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002)
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1:54 AM
September 11, 2006
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
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1:49 AM
September 8, 2006
"The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity."
Margaret J. Wheatley
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1:53 AM
September 7, 2006
"The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation."
Igor Stravinsky
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7:50 AM
September 6, 2006
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."
Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
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7:49 AM
September 5, 2006
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel laureate (1912- )
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1:38 AM
September 4, 2006
"We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't."
Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
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1:36 AM
September 1, 2006
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
Winston Churchill
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12:37 AM