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member name: Bill Allin
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January 08, 2008 10:39 PM EST --
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)
The irony of a blind woman advising people to look the world straight in the face delighted . . .
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August 10, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should . . .
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August 24, 2006 07:32 PM EDT --
Disregard what should be and think about what could be.
- Anonymous
When you think about it, what should be is what is not at this time. That is, it's looking back wards and wishing about what should . . .
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December 09, 2007 02:52 PM EST --
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
I can do this.
Some may think it's impossible, . . .
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September 21, 2006 05:06 PM EDT --
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for . . .
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November 06, 2006 05:34 PM EST --
Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world.
- Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990)
If you are reading this message, . . .
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February 26, 2007 02:48 PM EST --
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the toughest lessons to learn, especially for . . .
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March 01, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
Let me say at the outset . . .
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December 09, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
- Sting, (Gordon . . .
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January 19, 2008 08:37 AM EST --
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
- Abdul Baha, one of the founders and an early leader of the Baha'i . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:00 PM EDT --
Strange Facts About Science Fiction
Opinions vary about when the science fiction genre began. Writer Hugo Gernsback founded the first known science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories , in 1926.
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April 21, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter and hero (1853-1895)
When you read the quotation you might be tempted to think that it was . . .
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June 27, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction novelist (1917-2008)
It wasn't possible for humans to fly, . . .
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January 08, 2008 08:31 PM EST --
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want and believe you can have it.
- Norman Vincent Peale
That's pretty easy, right? After all, you have no possibility of . . .
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February 22, 2008 06:34 PM EST --
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
- Jimmy Stewart in Harvey , 1950
In the movie, Harvey was a giant, man-sized rabbit that . . .
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February 26, 2008 07:03 PM EST --
The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world.
- Bhagavad-Gita, Hindu holy narrative, about 5000 years old
Well, that sounds like fancy-worded crap, doesn't . . .
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March 25, 2008 07:19 PM EDT --
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
- Mother Teresa
The world is not made up of you, the people you . . .
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March 28, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men/women act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, . . .
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July 13, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
For most of human history since the dawn of the agrarian age (about 12,000 years ago) our ancestors looked outside their homes in the morning, checked the sky and thought OK, I can do this task today . . .
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February 19, 2007 07:27 PM EST --
All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. And you have to be really self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.
- William Gibson
What is he talking about? . . .
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