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Teri · Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 6:21 am Post subject:

Tobacco saps the land, saps the purse, and saps the man. ~James Lendall Basford

Teri · Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:55 am Post subject:

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. ~Mignon McLaughlin

JohnT · Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:21 am Post subject:

“All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.”

― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
(British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host, 1917 - 2008.)

Teri · Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:28 am Post subject:

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~Jeannette Walls

JohnT · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 4:08 am Post subject:

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”

― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, American writer and filmmaker best known for the aforementioned book, born 1979.

Teri · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 4:53 am Post subject:

Life is like riding a bicycle; we have to go ahead before we know we are right. Our knowledge is very limited, and we walk mostly by faith. ~G. R. Dodson

JohnT · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:08 pm Post subject:

“Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.”

― Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist, born 1928.

Teri · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 5:47 am Post subject:

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:58 pm Post subject:

“From the end spring new beginnings.”

― Pliny the Elder, a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, 23 AD - 79 AD.

Teri · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:01 am Post subject:

You think you can fix everything, change everything. But there will come a day when things cannot be fixed. And, you know what, it will be a day just like today. ~American Indian elder, quoted by Kent Nerburn, 2016

Teri · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:02 am Post subject:

Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. ~Dave Bonta

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:27 pm Post subject:

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

― Robert F. Kennedy, American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination, died this day in 1968.

Teri · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:37 am Post subject:

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:09 am Post subject:

“The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
(He is an American former cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995, born 1958)

Teri · Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:50 am Post subject:

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. ~Bill Watterson