Interesting Quotes

[Goric]

Nothing is easier than to keep a secret: there needs no more than to shut
one's mouth.
--Anon.

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one
will do.
--Thomas Jefferson

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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond
with them.
--Abigail Adams

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People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's
out, but when the darkness sets
in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


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When help is rendered by weighing the receiver's need
And not the donor's reward, its goodness grows greater than the sea.
--Tirukkural 11: 103

[Goric]

I am too blessed to be stressed!
> --Anonymous
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> Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we
> can have some conversation.
> -- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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> Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
> -- Bertrand Russell
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> Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
> -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

[Lilly]

a short collection of ironies i have copied down as i found them over the years. The disturbing part is that i didnt make them up.


More money for pain! Swor and Gotto will change your mind about lawyers! (lawyer commercial)

Your survival may depend on how fast you act. details in 40 seconds (national weather service)

Personal fulfillment doesnt pay the bills (a classmate on the second to last day of my high school education)

New releases are guaranteed in, or else its free! (Blockbuster video)

"New! improved chicken pot pie! now with real chicken!" (I dont remember the company who made this..but it had an orange-red box. I advise never eating anything from that color of box again)

[Althus]

LOL! The blockbuster thing actually works, though.

The company with the red-orange box is Stouffers. They also have white boxes, so beware ;)

I'm not going to comment about the personal fulfillment thing... <g>

[Goric]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies
> within us while we live.
> --Norman Cousins
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> Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of
> him than he is of the pitcher."
> --Ty Cobb
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> You can take better care of your secret than another can.
> --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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> If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it
> to your friend.
> --Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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> Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat
> just what he hears and no more.
> --Seneca
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