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Meat Industry
Born: February 6, 1955 Occupation: Author Continue reading
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Fun To Talk
Born: January 18, 1882 – Died: January 31, 1956 Continue reading
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Ultimate Measure
Born: January 15, 1929 – Died: April 4, 1968 Continue reading
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Memories
Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime. -Ugo Eze Continue reading
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Laundry
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ~Author Unknown Continue reading
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Coffee
Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.… Continue reading
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The Body
The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. ~Eduardo Galeano Continue reading
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Liar
Born: January 18, 1882 – Died: January 31, 1956 Continue reading
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Words
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. -Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Writing
You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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Experience
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein Continue reading
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Political Speech
Born: November 7, 1913 – Died: January 4, 1960 Continue reading
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Winter
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel Continue reading
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Games
All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. -William S. Burroughs Continue reading
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Ice
The rich man gets his ice in the summer and the poor men gets his in the winter. -Polish Proverb Continue reading
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January 1st
Soon we will have completed our annual list of good intentions. Across the country there are millions of cigarettes waiting to be stomped out, tons of fat waiting to be lost, miles to be run, lives to be organized, selves to be improved. Once again, we will pass resolutions as if we were our own… Continue reading
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Agatha Christie Quote
Born: September 15, 1890 – Died: January 12, 1976 Continue reading
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Reality
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. -Margaret Halsey, No Laughing Matter Continue reading
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Music
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. -Kabir Continue reading
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Everybody Knows
Source/Notes: Everybody Knows (co-written with Sharon Robinson) – YouTube video – I’m Your Man (1988) Read more at http://izquotes.com/quote/220461 Continue reading
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Good Health
To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha Continue reading
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Never Assume
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Winter Quote ~ Ogden Nash
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy… Continue reading
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If Your A Native Chicagoan
Born: September 5, 1929 Continue reading
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The Next Generation
Born: July 26, 1894 – Died: November 22, 1963 Continue reading
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Proverb
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb Continue reading
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Billboards, Billboards, Drink This,…. ~ Neal Cassady
Born: February 8, 1926 – Died: February 4, 1968 Occupation: Poet Continue reading
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Poetry Is….
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. -Lawrence Ferlinghetti Continue reading
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Feelings
Born: March 26, 1930 – Died: January 17, 2001 Occupation: Poet Continue reading
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Winter
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. -John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866 Continue reading
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Best Friends
Let’s swear each with our pinky We’ll be the best of friends Until we are old and wrinkly! ~Author unknown Continue reading
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Winter Afternoons
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are…. When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath – When it goes, ’tis like the… Continue reading
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Dream Quote ~ John Lennon
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How Did It Get Late …. ~ Dr. Seuss
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~Dr. Seuss Continue reading
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The Only People I Know ……
Born: November 30, 1962 Continue reading
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Proverb
Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb Continue reading
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French Proverb
It is in an old kitchen that the best food is made. ~French Proverb Continue reading
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Journalist
Born: April 28, 1874 – Died: June 12, 1936 Austrian writer Continue reading
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Charles Bukowski ~ Anger
people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice… ~Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) Continue reading
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Philosophical Quote
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. ~W.H. Auden Continue reading
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Patience
Have patience, my friend, have patience; For Rome wasn’t built in a day! You wear yourself out for nothing In many and many a way! Why are you nervous and fretty When things do not move along fast; Why let yourself get excited Over things that will soon be past? ~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Patience” (1940s) Continue reading
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Moondance
Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes A fantabulous night to make romance ’Neath the cover of October skies And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow And I’m trying to please to the calling Of your… Continue reading
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When Diet Is Wrong …….
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Seasons
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein Continue reading
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Wars Of Nations… Muhammad Ali
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I’m No Politician… Jack Bruce
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If A Man Walks In The Woods…..
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry… Continue reading
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Life Is Like A Piano…
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People Are Best…
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins Continue reading
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B. B. King Quote
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October
October is the month for painted leaves…. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. ~Henry David Thoreau, “Autumnal Tints” Continue reading
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Go After Your Dream
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College Degree
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Stephen King Quote
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Memory
Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed with yesterday’s trash. Rather, memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them. ~Hal Boyle, 1971 Continue reading
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I Believe…..
I believe that he’s not my president, lives on a different planet. Seriously… Continue reading
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Hypocrite
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Writing
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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Summer
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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People Will Forget….
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