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member name: Bill Allin
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August 07, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
- Alfred E. Wiggam
"A liberal is a man who believes that misery should be spread equally."
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July 22, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
I only wanted to put her out of my misery.
The purpose of this article is not to convey my innermost feelings as I struggled to avoid the temptation to snuff out someone's life. It's to show how . . .
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August 17, 2006 07:51 PM EDT --
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
- David Sarnoff, televison and business personality (1891–1971)
Since Sarnoff died in 1971 another factor has crept . . .
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September 25, 2006 10:01 PM EDT --
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir
"Supposed to be?" Who said that? Who says, with authority, . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, . . .
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August 23, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
- Charles M Schwab, . . .
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November 14, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
- Rita Mae Brown, American . . .
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July 28, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
- Lord Byron, English poet (1788–1824)
This message is not one grounded in attributable fact, but one based on reason. Therefore I make . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Everyone you meet seems normal until you really get to know them.
The better you know them, the more abnormal, or at least "different," they seem.
It's safe to conclude from this that no . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
- Shirley MacLaine, actor and positive thinker
And yet we do it.
Dwelling on the negative makes us the only species to do so and . . .
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . .
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December 02, 2007 06:19 PM EST --
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward
People like people who try to bring out the best in them. They may resent the methods . . .
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July 09, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal, US writer
Never at a loss for words . . .
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July 18, 2006 09:51 PM EDT --
"It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
- Charley Reese, American commentator
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July 23, 2006 02:43 PM EDT --
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mohandas K. ("The Mahatma") Gandhi
Note that the "Great Soul" did not advance the cause of . . .
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August 09, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Such insight from a man whose life was a bit scrambled itself.
Let's take the quote . . .
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August 11, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
- Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
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August 14, 2006 09:47 PM EDT --
"Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet laureate, eulogizing the Duke of Wellington.
[palter - 1. To talk . . .
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August 25, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved."
- Charles Kettering, American industrialist
While this quote has no place in the chambers of legislature, where elected representatives want . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, best known for buckyballs and geodesic domes, disliked the common ways . . .
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