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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
― Rod Serling
Rod Serline was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science-fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Born 1924, died 1975. _________________ 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: Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:27 am Post subject: |
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October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round. ~John Nichols _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”
― C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (1898 – 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University (Magdalen College). _________________ 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: Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Born 1835, died 1910.) _________________ 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: Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Kind deeds often come back to the givers in fairer shapes than they go. ~Louisa M. Alcott _________________
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JohnT Aruba Fanatic
Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 855 Location: Ormond Beach, FL
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Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
-- Lous B. Smedes
Lewis Benedictus Smedes (1921 – 2002) was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. _________________ 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: Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who … organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day…
-- Seneca
Seneca (born circa 4 BC, died 65 AD) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist. _________________ 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: Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:37 am Post subject: |
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And yet, if we are not bound by the past, neither are we to discard it... We are to learAbbottn how, out of the past, to evolve an instrumentation useful for to‑day. ~Lyman _________________
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:07 am Post subject: |
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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. ~Mignon McLaughlin _________________
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Some men seem more desirous of making an impression upon a fool than upon a wise man. ~James Lendall Basford _________________
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:28 am Post subject: |
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
— Jean de La Fontaine, French poet (1621-1695)
He was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be - Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) |
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Perfection, my friend, is no more made for us than infinity. We must seek for nothing in it, demand nothing of it, neither love nor beauty, happiness nor virtue.... ~Alfred de Musset _________________
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:45 am Post subject: |
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Keep it going! You never can do anything by spasmodic efforts. It's the eternal hammering that does the thing. ~Edward Mott Woolley
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
― Andy Rooney (1919 - 2011)
Andrew Aitken Rooney was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Cookies are made of butter and love. ~Norwegian Proverb _________________
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