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    Hello M'Lord

    Managed to get past the sh!t sandwich phase fortunately ...

    All the best. JP

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    3 favourites:

    “The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”

    --Travis Walton

    The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
    --Leo Tolstoy
    War and Peace

    Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
    -- Jack Handey
    "Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
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    OMG.....you all are so great, these quotes are phenomenal. they all have an interior meaning that is palpable. thank you so much for making this thread so successful. if i could keep hitting the thank you button for all of you a million times, i certainly would. big kisses and hugs. keep it going.........
    warmest regards, corson

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    The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable ...

    In married life - three is company and two is none ...

    Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900

    Love and hugs to all. JP

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    When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

    Alexander Graham Bell

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    DON'T READ THE NEWSPAPERS -- Henry David Thoreau, 1853

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    Here are a few:

    There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what
    they laugh at.

    *** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German Philosopher ***

    What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have
    amounts to much more.

    *** Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65) Roman Philosopher & Playwright ***

    You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them to discover it
    within themselves.

    *** Galileo Galilei ***

    The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They
    just make the best of everything.

    *** Unknown ***
    "Vision without action is merely a dream.
    Action without vision just passes the time.
    Vision with action can change the world." Joel Arthur Barker

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    "Life without knowledge is like death in disguise"

    "That's why knowledge of self is like life after death"- Talib Kweli (Hip-Hop Artist)
    In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make

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    I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” - Robert McCloskey

    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

    “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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    Quote I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
    - Eve Merriam


    Quote The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
    - David Friedman


    Quote There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know that we don't know.
    - Donald Rumsfeld


    Quote Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
    - Donald Rumsfeld

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    Curly of the three stooges
    Quote At first if you don't succeed. Keep on sucking until you do succeed!

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    Corson, what a great thread! Thank you so much for starting it.

    Once you start with just one quote...well, it's like eating peanuts; you just have to have more. They can make you laugh, and think, and question, and maybe even bring a tear to the eye. This is so much fun.

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    Sad news...

    Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment
    community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and
    trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.
    Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities
    turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry
    Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and
    Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.
    Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man
    who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show
    business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not
    considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked
    schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old
    man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.
    Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and
    Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his
    elderly father, Pop Tart.
    The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
    If this made you smile for even a brief second, please rise to the
    occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone
    else who may be having a crumby day and kneads it.

    Sorry could not help myself!!
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    My stomach hurts from laughing so hard! Thanks, benevolentcrow. Can't wait to pass that one on.

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    Benevolentcrow that was priceless. i will roll it out and pass it on.....
    regards, corson

    i think that Benevolentcrow's doughboy takes the day. that was great.
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    i see that it is now tomorrow for some of you, so i'm going to start off the day with:

    March 31, 2011

    "The truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time."
    Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
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    "If you can talk you can sing, If you can walk you can dance" African proverb form Zimbabwe

    (stop caring what other people think and be you!)
    In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make

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    Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

    Hermann Goering

    Sound familiar to anybody ... particularly here in the usa after 9/11???

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    Never linger too long with the ignorant,
    throw stones at their talk.
    Walk only with the lovers,
    the mirror of the soul gets rusty when
    dipped in muddy water.
    Rumi
    .... be gentle with your anger. Sixto Rodriguez, Cape Town 20.02.2013

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    The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
    -Buddha.

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