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Post Number:#166  Postby Sheila » 08 May 2012, 09:52

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - CS Lewis
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Post Number:#167  Postby StephenKingman » 18 May 2012, 15:36

"Being honest may not always get you friends, but it will always get you the right friends"...a lovely and true quote I heard today.
You only live once.....so live!
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Post Number:#168  Postby perusaphone » 08 Jun 2012, 15:43

This may be on here already but it makes me smile... !!

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
The late Ronald Reagan actor/president.
Morphing into a misanthrope by existence in the human(?) race.....
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Post Number:#169  Postby sandraalvarez » 21 Jun 2012, 08:26

"I'm afraid of not being there"

From the movie "The Bofdyguard"
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Post Number:#170  Postby StephenKingman » 23 Jun 2012, 09:38

"Brave people may not live forever, but cautious people never live at all"
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Post Number:#171  Postby AmandaRose » 18 Jul 2012, 13:25

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost
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Post Number:#172  Postby Bighuey » 19 Jul 2012, 18:49

If you can fool half the people all the time, thats good enough. Dont be a hog.
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Post Number:#173  Postby hartmanr1 » 15 Oct 2012, 08:15

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Post Number:#174  Postby jeffhardy12 » 19 Oct 2012, 08:52

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa.
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Post Number:#175  Postby JadeBecker » 21 Oct 2012, 20:24

I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in
miracles.
~Audrey Hepburn
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Post Number:#176  Postby Melida » 29 Oct 2012, 01:12

Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post Number:#177  Postby Moose » 29 Oct 2012, 02:47

"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Ghandi
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Post Number:#178  Postby DATo » 01 Nov 2012, 23:29

"In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
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Post Number:#179  Postby episkopos » 05 Nov 2012, 07:21

"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."
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Post Number:#180  Postby Fran » 05 Nov 2012, 09:13

episkopos wrote:"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."


@episkopos
It is customary to give credit for the quote to it's author ... you wouldn't want to be accused of plagerism I'm sure :wink:
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