Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." ~ James Agate

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." ~ Oscar Wilde

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"Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ~ Brad Paisley

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
~ T.S. Eliot

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." ~ Bill Vaughn

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"No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February." ~ Suze Orman

"January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow." ~ Sara Coleridge

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
~Karen Joy Fowler

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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." ~ Mark Twain

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it." ~ Henry Ford

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." ~ Emily Dickinson

"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." ~ Horace Mann

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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky." ~ Brene Brown

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ~ Paulo Coelho

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“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.” ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ~ Marie Curie

“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”~ Bertrand Russell

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"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." ~ Euripides

"They can because they think they can." ~ Virgil

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." ~ Tony Blair

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"A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end."
~Walter Savage Landor

"Kissing don't last: cookery do." ~ George Meredith

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." ~ Harriet Van Horne

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

"Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

~ Winston Churchill

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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." ~ Will Durant

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”~ Alice Hoffman

“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
~ Jerome K. Jerome,

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"It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players." ~ Red Smith.

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that." ~ Bill Shankly

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." ~ Erma Bombeck

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"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” ~ Winston Churchill

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, tell the truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.” ~ Randy Pausch

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.”
~ G. W. Cooke

[SmokeyBob]

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." ~ Jim Rohn

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." ~ Mark Twain

"The best revenge is massive success." ~ Frank Sinatra