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The Wind
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~William Arthur Ward Continue reading
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Normal
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to… Continue reading
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Perspective
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ~Al Neuharth Continue reading
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Fear
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.” ~ Molly Ivins Continue reading
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Reading
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux Continue reading
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Wireless
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. ~Nikola Tesla Continue reading
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Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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Cats
If cats were the double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal. ~Douglas Coupland – Canadian Novelist Continue reading
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Darkness
Born: January 15, 1929 ~ Died: April 4, 1968 Continue reading
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Hypocrites
“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.” ~ Marvin Gaye Born: April 2, 1939 ~ Died: April 1, 1984 Continue reading
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April
The April winds are magical, and thrill our tuneful frames; the garden walks are passionate to bachelors and dames. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Bumper Sticker
“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.” ~ George Carlin Continue reading
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Poor People ~ John Goodman
“People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.” ~ John Goodman Continue reading
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Born: March 25, 1942 Continue reading
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Tabloids
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. ~Jerry Seinfeld Continue reading
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Comebacks
“You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.” ~ Peyton Manning Continue reading
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Death
In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web may have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. ~Edgar Allan… Continue reading
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Spring #2
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood, “Unearthing Suite,” 1983 Continue reading
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Spring
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson Continue reading
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Marriage
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne – (1533-1592) French Philosopher & Writer Continue reading
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Perfectionism
“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.” ~ John Updike, March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009 Continue reading
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Anticipation
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ~Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading
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The Wind
The wind blew very hard that day And snatched her petticoat away. ~Gustave Flaubert Pt III, Ch. VIII – Madame Bovary (1857) Continue reading
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Heart
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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The Right Ideas
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 Continue reading
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Winning
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. -Wilma Rudolph Continue reading
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Man
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. -Gertrude Stein Continue reading
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Society
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -Carl Sagan Continue reading
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Imagination
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -Simone Weil Continue reading
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Facts
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. -Edmund Burke Continue reading
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Hate
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou Continue reading
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Mind
Don’t believe everything you hear – even in your own mind. -Daniel Amen Continue reading
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Thinking
Occupation: Professor Continue reading
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March
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Great Expectations Continue reading
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Believe
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. -Arthur Koestler Continue reading
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Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and understand. -Confucius Continue reading
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Robots
I don’t thing the robots are taking over. I think the men who plays with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. -Ray Bradbury Continue reading
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Earth
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. -Arthur C. Clarke Continue reading
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Great Teacher
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. -John Steinbeck Continue reading
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George Harrison’s Last Words
Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001 Continue reading
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Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Continue reading
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Public Libraries
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. ~Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Coffee
If you don’t drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home. -George Clooney Continue reading
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Friend
There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway Continue reading
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Mainstream Media
Born: March 24, 1919 Continue reading
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Love Is
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. -Joan Baez (Daybreak 1968) Continue reading
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Sanity
Sanity is a madness put to good use. -George Santayana Continue reading
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The Eyes
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Life
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. -Bob Fosse Continue reading
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Loneliness
Born: February 13, 1961 – Occupation: Musician Continue reading
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Never Plan
You can never plan the future by the past. -Edmund Burke Continue reading
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Too Many
too many emails too many posts to read too many blogs that I follow time for a reset Continue reading
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The Past
The past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute. -George Harrison Continue reading
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No Internet Connection
no iinternet connection so in the meantime there will be intermittent posting till late Wednesday afternoon for I’ll be doing it phone Continue reading
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Everything In Life Is Writable
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Continue reading
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Earth
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -Robert Browning Continue reading
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Two People
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. -Ansel Adams Continue reading
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Time
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. -Albert Einstein Continue reading
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Life
Life consists in what a man is thinking all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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New York
Born: April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974 Composer Continue reading
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Two Things
Born: January 25, 1938 – Died: January 20, 2012 Singer-songwriter Continue reading
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First Amendment
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. -Thurgood Marshall Stanley v. Georgia (1969) Continue reading
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Computers
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