Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one." ~ Bill Gates

"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you." ~ Will Rogers

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." ~ John Adams

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"Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing."
~ Lily Tomlin

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” ~ Charles Lamb

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work” ~ Thomas A. Edison

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ~ J.M. Barrie

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“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." ~ Stephen King

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." ~ Harry Golden

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“For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~ Robert Brault

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter" . ~ James Earl Jones

"To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful." ~ Bess Myerson

"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love." ~ Charles Shultz

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A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” ~ William Shedd

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." ~ Stan Smith

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” ~ Vince Lombardi

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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim

"Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." ~ Thomas Szasz

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else." ~ Peyton Conway March

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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” ~ Cicero

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” ~ Satchell Paige

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” ~ Margaret Cousins

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“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” ~ Oscar Wilde

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." ~ Dave Barry

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead." ~ Bill McGlashen

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"Without music, life would be a mistake." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." ~ Maya Angelou

"Music can change the world because it can change people." ~ Bono

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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” ~ John Donne

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”~ Chad Sugg

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“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ~ Lauren DeStefano

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.” ~ Andrea Gibson

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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"First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do". ~ Epictetus

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." ~ Harvey Fierstein