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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 6:10 am Post subject: |
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Andre Gide (French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1869-1951) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Exciting spring smells waft through wide open windows. ~David J. Beard _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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"You call tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it."
--- Archbishop Oscar Romero, days before his murder on this day, 24 March 1980.
--- (He is now called St. Oscar Romero, 1917-1980) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Teri Moderator
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To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars... ~Henry Van Dyke _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
--- Noam Chomsky
--- Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist, and social critic.
--- (1928 - ) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:55 am Post subject: |
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I am mad with the sight of stars, and frenzied with the beauty of the silver, wanton moon. ~Muriel Strode _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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We are all sliced from the same loaf of bread. We just happen to be toasted differently.
--- seen on an Internet posting (with a graphic of several slices of bread...very light to very dark.) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Teri Moderator
Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:47 am Post subject: |
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The sun was setting, flinging banners of orange and vermilion against the clouds, setting them afire. ~Lauraine Snelling _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:20 am Post subject: |
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
--- George Carlin _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
--- Cory Booker (US Senator from New Jersey, candidate for US President 2020, born 1969) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4420 Location: Pittsburgh
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 4:46 am Post subject: |
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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. ~Erwin T. Randall _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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I live in a crazy time.
--- Anne Frank
--- Born 1929. Died 1945 (Bergen-Belsen camp) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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A sleepy man's eyes generally go to bed some time before he does. ~James Lendall Basford _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
― Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826, was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809). _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves. ~Ryan Hurd _________________
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