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Post Number:#91  Postby Fran » 08 Nov 2010, 06:55

'All the world is mad save thee and I ... and even thee is a little mad'

I remember a school friend saying it to me years ago
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Post Number:#92  Postby Stinkin' Fascist » 09 Nov 2010, 04:14

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi

I must say, I greatly appreciate this quote.
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Post Number:#93  Postby Fran » 09 Nov 2010, 06:03

Stinkin' Fascist wrote:"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi

I must say, I greatly appreciate this quote.


:)
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Post Number:#94  Postby Just Me » 09 Nov 2010, 11:01

Stinkin' Fascist wrote:"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi

I must say, I greatly appreciate this quote.


I'm going to remember this one!~
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Post Number:#95  Postby Fran » 09 Nov 2010, 15:02

"A man's face is his autobiography ... a woman's face is a work of fiction"
- Oscar Wilde

:lol:
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Post Number:#96  Postby Just Me » 09 Nov 2010, 22:58

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead

- The Girls by Lori Lansens
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Post Number:#97  Postby Stinkin' Fascist » 10 Nov 2010, 03:13

Life isn't all beer and skittles...

- Hughes Thomas

Haha.
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Post Number:#98  Postby Registry » 10 Nov 2010, 10:38

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24)
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Post Number:#99  Postby Fran » 10 Nov 2010, 11:01

Registry wrote:Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24)


'He who know how will always have a job but he who know why will always be the boss'
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Post Number:#100  Postby StephenKingman » 10 Nov 2010, 11:59

You tried your best and you failed miserably, the lesson is: never try....

(Homer Simpson) :D
You only live once.....so live!
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Post Number:#101  Postby Fran » 10 Nov 2010, 13:53

StephenKingman wrote:You tried your best and you failed miserably, the lesson is: never try....

(Homer Simpson) :D


What a philosopher :lol:
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Post Number:#102  Postby Stinkin' Fascist » 10 Nov 2010, 14:26

Oh aye haha. He comes from a long line of Homers (The Illiad, etc.)
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Post Number:#103  Postby Lonestar » 10 Nov 2010, 20:04

"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." -- L. Frank Baum, "The Wizard Of Oz"

So, SO true.
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Post Number:#104  Postby Stinkin' Fascist » 11 Nov 2010, 03:42

I concur, 't is a good quote.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest worrior.

- Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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Post Number:#105  Postby Fran » 11 Nov 2010, 05:16

Lonestar wrote:"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." -- L. Frank Baum, "The Wizard Of Oz"

So, SO true.


Nice one :)
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