Tag: social
member name: Bill Allin
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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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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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April 05, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)
"I don't vote because my one vote won't make any . . .
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May 24, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Schools have a mystique about them among many parents because teachers accomplish things with children that non-educators can’t fathom or even grasp the degree of their influence on their children. . . .
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November 11, 2006 06:40 PM EST --
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
- Andre Gide, French writer (1869–1951)
Could you discover new lands? Would you . . .
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January 24, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Let's first off make a major distinction between finding fault and offering ways and means for correction and improvement. Finding . . .
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July 03, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
Irony? Hypocrisy? Double standard? No term fits the need to describe the situation where a person who believes in the right to life for a zygote a few days old or a fetus a few days older still is prepared . . .
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October 02, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
- Maya Angelou, writer, actor (1928- )
The need for change seems to be on the minds of many people these days.
We . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson of Glenwilliam (1844–1931)
This lesson should be taught to everyone. While many people today give . . .
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October 08, 2006 06:41 PM EDT --
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist and author
Dr. Brothers is an oddball at the best of times. She became a household name . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
- George Lucas, movie producer and animation innovator
Doesn't that make sense? Lucas, . . .
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July 10, 2006 05:07 PM EDT --
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
- George Lois
The reference is to creative thinking, not so much creative . . .
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September 29, 2006 06:56 PM EDT --
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing, US writer and quipster
I never call anyone . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
"Education will never be as expensive as ignorance."
- Anonymous
I must veer away from my usual practice and express this clearly as my personal opinion.
Most, if not all, of the ills . . .
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July 27, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it;
it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield . . .
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April 04, 2008 08:23 PM EDT --
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. . . .
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April 20, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Let him that would move the world . . .
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April 25, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960)
Well, I do, Albert, so where are you so I can refute your statement?
Seriously, . . .
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August 12, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks , American novelist, educator, editor (1901-1982)
First of all, censors are no longer just men in western countries. . . .
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August 23, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. . . .
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