11-26-2012, 09:18 AM | #1921 |
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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11-26-2012, 06:40 PM | #1922 |
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11-27-2012, 04:31 PM | #1923 | |
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11-27-2012, 04:50 PM | #1924 |
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I've had that on my TBR list for a while now.
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11-28-2012, 07:33 AM | #1925 |
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One of my most favorite poems - the Goodreads quote today as today is William Blake's birthday:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. - William Blake (The English poet was born on this day in 1757) |
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11-29-2012, 09:26 PM | #1926 | |
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12-01-2012, 11:10 AM | #1928 |
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“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.” Mark Twain. Happy 177th Samuel Clemens.
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12-01-2012, 11:44 AM | #1929 |
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12-08-2012, 06:17 AM | #1931 |
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
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From one of my favorite books:
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12-11-2012, 06:16 AM | #1933 |
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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One of my all time favorites, I kept it on the cover of my writing notebook for a long, long time:
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