October 31, 2006
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)
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October 30, 2006
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter the way you meet them.”
Phyllis Bottome
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October 27, 2006
"Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it."
Alan Watts
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October 26, 2006
"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."
Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)
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October 25, 2006
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
Simone Weil
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October 24, 2006
“The greatest battles of our life are the ones we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” David McKay
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1:42 AM
October 23, 2006
"We are either like a thermometer or like a thermostat. The first is controlled by the environment, the second controls the environment."
Anonymous
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October 20, 2006
“It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals”
Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)
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1:09 AM
October 19, 2006
"We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party."
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948
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1:07 AM
October 18, 2006
"The older I get, the more I think all that matters is working with people you like.”
Eric Schmidt
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1:06 AM
October 17, 2006
"The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present."
Abraham Lincoln
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1:04 AM
October 16, 2006
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner
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1:03 AM
October 13, 2006
“When the task is done beforehand, then it is easy.” Yuantong
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1:31 AM
October 12, 2006
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.”
Abe Tannenbaum
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1:29 AM
October 11, 2006
“Nothing that is beautiful is easy, but everything is possible.”
Mercedes de Acosta
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1:26 AM
October 10, 2006
“Slang is humanity's first play toy.”
John Algeo, University of Georgia professor
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1:25 AM
October 9, 2006
“Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.”
Walter Lippman, journalist (1889-1974)
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1:32 AM
October 6, 2006
“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.”
Kenneth Hildebrand
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October 5, 2006
"A mother is not a person to lean upon, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
Dorothy Canfield
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October 4, 2006
"Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die." anonymous
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October 3, 2006
“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” From
The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy
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October 2, 2006
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered"
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US president (1908-1973)
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