October 31, 2007
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life."
W. Somerset Maugham
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1:37 AM
October 30, 2007
"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted"
George Kneller
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1:36 AM
October 29, 2007
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
Roy Amara, engineer, futurist (b. 1925)
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1:34 AM
October 26, 2007
"And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
What you believe about yourself
It all comes true
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John Cougar Mellencamp
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1:35 AM
October 25, 2007
"I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity."
Dom Helder Camara
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1:30 AM
October 24, 2007
"By nature, we are storytelling beings. To be human is to have a story to tell."
Cathy Malchiodi
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1:27 AM
October 23, 2007
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice. It is conformity."
Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
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12:26 AM
October 22, 2007
"You are not here merely to make a living. you are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
Woodrow Wilson
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1:22 AM
October 19, 2007
"To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin."
*Martin Buber*
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1:49 AM
October 18, 2007
"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662. French mathematician, philosopher and physicist
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1:46 AM
October 17, 2007
"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore
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12:41 AM
October 16, 2007
"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark."
Thomas L. Odem, Jr
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1:38 AM
October 15, 2007
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever, have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
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1:36 AM
October 12, 2007
“Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.” Margaret J. Wheatley
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1:30 AM
October 11, 2007
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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12:28 AM
October 10, 2007
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
William Faulkner
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1:26 AM
October 9, 2007
“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.” Anonymous
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12:21 AM
October 8, 2007
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”Herodotus
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12:07 AM
October 5, 2007
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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12:02 AM
October 4, 2007
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think."
James McCosh
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1:59 AM
October 3, 2007
"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."
Elizabeth Lawrence
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1:57 AM
October 2, 2007
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."
Swedish proverb
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1:54 AM
October 1, 2007
"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)
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