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Comment by Gena A. Etheridge-Seltzer on January 14, 2009 at 12:32am

''A woman is like a teabag--
You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.''

-Eleanor Rosevelt

Comment by Gena A. Etheridge-Seltzer on January 3, 2009 at 10:45am

>u>Okay, here's a few to carry us into the next few days:

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'!
-(Morgan Freeman's character line from the movie, "Shawshank Redemption")

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.-- Vincent van Gogh

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure
is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one
has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act.
--Dr. Maxwell Maltz

You can increase your brain power three-to-fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem. --Doug Hall

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
--Moliere

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Comment by Jon Lopes on January 3, 2009 at 8:40am

What has happened? We have all of a sudden gotten quiet.
"Whatever the mind of man can concieve and believe, it can achieve" Napolean Hill

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 9, 2008 at 12:40am

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." -Josh Billings

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 9, 2008 at 12:35am

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 9, 2008 at 12:28am

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." Albert Einstein

Comment by Gena A. Etheridge-Seltzer on December 8, 2008 at 11:53pm

Here's a few to jump-start our weeks with:

Thought provoking:
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under
whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-- Nelson Henderson

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison

When the wind goes out of the sail,
the boat drifts with the current.
--Old sailor's truth

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
-- Irene Kassorla

They thought pretty deeply back 400 or so BC:
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

All you need is the plan, the road map,
and the courage to press on
to your destination.
--Earl Nightingale

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them.
-- Louis L'Amour, author

We should not look back unless it is to derive
useful lessons from past errors, and for the
purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
--George Washington

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall,
you experience a breakthrough that takes you to
new heights in accomplishment.
--Stedman Graham

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 8, 2008 at 12:46am

"Censorship reflects a societies lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." Potter Stewart

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 8, 2008 at 12:42am

"Beware the fury of a patient man." John Dryden

Comment by Jon Lopes on December 8, 2008 at 12:40am

"They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles." Ben Franklin

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