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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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“For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
― John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1917-1963), from Profiles in Courage _________________ 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: Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Let nature be in your yard. ~Greg Peterson _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
--- Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman...after escaping from slavery in Maryland. _________________ 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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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 6:25 am Post subject: |
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The dust and odour of ancient libraries, the gloom of those crypts of literature, have... all the charm of freshest images and freshest poetry. ~Alexandre Vinet _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has been described as a modern classic. Born in 1906, he died this day April 9, in 1945, in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany _________________ 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 Apr 10, 2019 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb _________________
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. ~S. Parkes Cadman _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:16 am Post subject: |
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“If you learn to use adversity right, it will buy you a ticket to a place you can’t go to any other way,”
–- Virginia coach Tony Bennett (on winning the NCAA Men's National Basketball championship, April 8, 2019) _________________ 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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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
--- J. B. Priestly, English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster, 1894-1984 _________________ 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: Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:38 am Post subject: |
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On even the most stressful days, magic is still sitting quietly in the corner, waiting to be noticed. ~Dr. SunWolf _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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“A poor man with a good wife is happier than a king with a harem.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo (Canadian based Philosopher, Entrepreneur, and author of books) _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. ~Thomas Jefferson _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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"There are two reasons I am talking about forgiveness today. First, the single greatest cause of misery and tragedy in our world is the inability of people to forgive those who have wronged and wounded them. Secondly, the only cure for the bad memory of a past wrong is the act of forgiveness."
-- Lewis Smedes, theologian, author of several books on forgiveness, 1921-2002 _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Think any way you please, but know why. ~Martin H. Fischer _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:30 am Post subject: |
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"The longest journey is the journey inward.”
― Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
― Dag Hammarskjold, 1905-1961, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, was the youngest person to have held the post, at an age of 47 years upon his appointment. _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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