Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." ~ Rita Rudner

I"f you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
~ A. A. Milne

"Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!" ~ Jay Leno

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This past week, 49 out of the 50 states had snow, Florida being the only exception. I think this quote kind of sums it all up. “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together” ~ Vista M. Kelly

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

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." ~ George Washington

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -~ Muhammad Ali

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." ~ Helen Keller

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether *I* win or lose." ~ Darrin Weinberg

[SmokeyBob]

"Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives." ~ Joan Rivers


"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." ~ Cynthia Nelms

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." ~ Epictetus

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"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor." ~ Helen Rowland

"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." ~ Charles Du Bos

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
~Joseph Heller

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso

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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. ~ Pablo Neruda

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ~ Virgil Kraft

“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded. ” ~ Marianne Van Hirtum

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"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."~ Wilt Chamberlain

"I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either." ~ Dave Barry

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life."~ Isaiah Thomas

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”~ Mark Twain

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” ~ Steve Martin

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”~ Mae West

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost

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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ~ J.K. Rowling

"People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway." ~ Kent M. Keith

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”~ Douglas Adams,

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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing." ~William Wordsworth

"A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul." ~ Eric Pio

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." ~ Mary Bly

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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." ~ Philip Crosby


Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." ~ B.F. Skinner

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." ~ Mario Andretti