Say WHAT?!?!: L (all alone)
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| "...laughter is the sole excess that is
wholesome." |
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| "Lady, when you lose your power to
laugh, you lose your power to think straight." |
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| "The most wasted day of all is that on
which we have not laughed." |
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- Sebastien-Roch Nicholas Chamfort, French writer (1741 - 1794).
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Amazon.com,
one of the leaders of the e-commerce revolution. |
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| "The man who follows the crowd will
usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is
likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." |
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| "Square your shoulders to the world, be
not the kind to quit. It's not the load the breaks you, it's
the way you carry it." |
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"From time to time, life as a leader
can look hopeless. After taking a hard look in the mirror at
your leadership, you may be overwhelmed by the focus on what's needed.
To help you, consider a man who lived through this:
- Failed in business in '31
- Defeated for legislature in '32
- Again failed in business in '34
- Sweetheart died in '35
- Had a nervous breakdown in '36
- Defeated in election in '38
- Defeated for congress in '43
- Defeated for Congress in '46
- Defeated for Congress in '48
- Defeated for Senate in '55
- Defeated for Vice-President in '56
- Defeated for Senate in '58
- Elected President in '60
This man was Abraham Lincoln." |
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| "He has half the deed done, who has
made a beginning." |
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| "Small is the number of them that see
with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." |
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| "Any man of achievement does more
things than are necessary, and he keeps doing them." |
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| "Throughout the centuries, there where
men who took their first step down new roads armed with nothing but
their own vision." |
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| "The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never
gets far from the shore." |
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| "Example is not the main thing in
influencing others. It is the only thing." |
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| "A radical is a man with both feet
planted firmly in the air." |
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Give me a lever long enough, a place
to stand, and I shall move the world." |
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| "Give to us clear vision that we may
that we may know where to stand and what to stand for — because
unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything." |
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- Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain (18 April 1947).
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| "One man with courage makes a
majority." |
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| "The best executive is the one who has
sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and
self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do
it." |
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| "There go the people. I must follow
them, for I am their leader." |
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- Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, one of the leaders of the February
Revolution of 1848 in France
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www.NetZero.net
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| "There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damn lies, and statistics." |
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- Benjamin Disraeli, English Prime Minister and novelist (1804 -
1881).
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| "I don't want to tell you any
half-truths unless they're completely accurate." |
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- Dennis Rappaport, boxing manager, explaining his silence regarding
boxer Thomas Hearns.
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www.emode.com
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| "You can't do anything about the length
of your life, but you can do something about its width and
depth." |
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| "A life is not important except in the
impact it has on other lives." |
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| "We learn the rope of life by untying
its knots." |
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- Jean Toomer, Definitions and Aphorisms (1931).
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| "All life is an experiment." |
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Former US Supreme Court Justice (1919).
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| "Life is a romantic business. It is
painting a picture, not doing a sum." |
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., letter to Oswald Ryan (5 June 1911).
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| "Life can only be understood backward
but it must be lived forward." |
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| "Life is like an overlong drama through
which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the
reviews." |
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| "Life is what happens to you when
you're making other plans." |
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| "Most people have a full measure of
life; and most people just watch it slowly drip away. But if you can
summon it all up at one time, in one place, you can accomplish
something glorious." |
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- Juan Sanches Villa-Lobos Ramirez
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| "A hundred times a day I remind myself
that my life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and
that I must exert myself in order to give, in the measure as I have
received, and and still receiving." |
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"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth
and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we're not the person
involved?"
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| "Life is too important to be taken
seriously." |
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| "It's not true that life is one damn
thing after another — it's the same damn thing over and over." |
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| "I am what I chose to be. I have always
been what I have chosen, though not always what I've
pleased." |
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| "Dream as if you'll live forever, live
as if you'll die today." |
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| "I hope life isn't one big joke,
because I don't get it." |
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- Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts
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| "Life's a forge, I say! Face the
pounding; don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any
hammer and anvil!" |
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| "Life may have no meaning. Or even
worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." |
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| "Let us live so that when we come to
die even the undertaker will be sorry." |
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| "Man is born to live, not to prepare
for life." |
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- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
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| "You don't get to choose how you're
going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Now." |
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- Joan Baez, American singer
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| "One of the most tragic things I know
about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are
all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon —
instead
of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows
today." |
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- Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955).
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| "If you only have a hammer, you tend to
see every problem as a nail." |
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| "God gave us a penis and a brain, but
not enough blood to use both at the same time." |
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| "Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide it into small jobs." |
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| "When you have eliminated the
impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the
truth." |
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| "Contrariwise," continued
Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it
would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." |
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| "Well, for those who like that sort of
thing I should think that it is just about the sort of thing they
would like." |
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- Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
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| "I am not a vegetarian because I love
animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." |
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Surprise
your loved ones with cookies! |
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| "To love is to admire with the heart;
to admire is to love with the mind." |
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| "The joy of late love is like green
firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the
greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts." |
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| "If love was mathematical, you'd
understand the sum to the heart's equation: where one and one makes
one ... and lonely equals me minus you." |
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| "Love is like lightning: no one knows
where it will strike until it has struck." |
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| "The salvation of man is through love
and in love." |
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| "Love is not consolation. It is
light." |
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| "Hatred is love without all the
facts." |
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| "The three ingredients of a successful
union between two.. .humor, commitment & undying love." |
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| "Ah — love — the walks over soft
grass, the smiles over candlelight, the fights over just about
everything else...." |
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- Max Headroom (Matt Frewer), Max Headroom
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| "We've got this gift of love, but love
is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the
cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to
keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture
it." |
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There's
some luck involved in getting exactly what you want. |
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| "You know, Hobbes, sometimes even my
lucky rocketship underpants don't help." |
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| "I wasn't lucky. I deserved
it!" |
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- Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of England.
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| "Why my luck is no greater than yours
or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck
when it comes, and sharpen your wits to see what falls into your
hands." |
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| "I know what you're thinking. Did he
fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this
excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44
Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your
head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel
lucky?' Well, do ya punk?" |
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