February 28, 2007
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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1:01 AM
February 27, 2007
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
Flora Edwards
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1:55 AM
February 26, 2007
"Have a variety of interests . . . . These interests relax the mind and lessen the tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest."
George Matthew Allen
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1:53 AM
February 23, 2007
"I enjoy the presence of myself. I find myself smiling and having fun, even when I am just by myself. The more I enjoy myself, the more I enjoy my life, and the more I enjoy the presence of everyone around me."
Don Miguel Ruiz
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1:31 AM
February 22, 2007
“Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
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1:29 AM
February 21, 2007
“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.”
George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
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1:22 AM
February 20, 2007
“Solvitur ambulando.” (It is solved by walking.)
St. Augustine
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1:20 AM
February 19, 2007
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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9:16 AM
February 16, 2007
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
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1:10 AM
February 15, 2007
“What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.”
William K. Zinsser
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1:06 AM
February 14, 2007
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
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1:04 AM
February 13, 2007
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”
Bill Vaughan
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8:00 AM
February 12, 2007
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
Anton Chekhov
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1:59 AM
February 9, 2007
“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)
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12:51 AM
February 8, 2007
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
Robert Heinlein
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12:47 AM
February 7, 2007
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955)
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12:45 AM
February 6, 2007
"The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man 'fronts' a fact."
Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Thursday" in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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1:41 AM
February 5, 2007
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
Pietro Aretino
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10:35 AM
February 2, 2007
“Play is an experiment without hypothesis.”
Peter London
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1:17 AM
February 1, 2007
"A computer is an interface where the mind and boyd can connect with the universe and move bits of it about."
Douglas Adams
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1:12 AM