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Orrin · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:29 pm Post subject:

"The nearest way to glory - a shortcut, as it were - is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

-- Socrates

Teri · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject:

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Orrin · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:16 pm Post subject:

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

-- Helen Keller

Teri · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:34 am Post subject:

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers

Orrin · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:33 pm Post subject:

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

--Henry A. Kissinger

Teri · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:22 am Post subject:

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais

Orrin · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:26 pm Post subject:

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

--Harry S. Truman

Teri · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:51 am Post subject:

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn Jillette

Orrin · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:10 pm Post subject:

"Children need models rather than critics."

-- Joseph Joubert

Teri · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:29 pm Post subject:

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

Orrin · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:36 pm Post subject:

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

--P. J. O'Rourke

anora · New Member Joined: 26 Jul 2011 Posts: 3

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One of my favorite...

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"

Teri · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:52 am Post subject:

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

Orrin · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:08 pm Post subject:

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."

-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist

Teri · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:25 am Post subject:

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
Michael McClary