Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel
Journalist and entrepreneur

Immature love is when you want the other to be happy when they're with you- real love is when you want the other to be happy period.

Some men still have their first dollar. The man who is really rich is the one who still has his first friend.

Author unknown

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

~Agnes Meyer

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."
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Joyce Carol Oates

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

God judges political power, calling it the great harlot. We can expect from it neither justice, nor truth, nor any good -- only distruction. Jacques Ellul Anarchy and Christianity

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
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Paul Coffey - NHL's highest scoring defenseman; winner of four Stanley Cups; inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

~Ovid

The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will
produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and
enriched with foreign matter.

~Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling
yeast.

~Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."

-Gertrude Stein

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say
and then don't say it."

- Sam Levenson

There is no need to go searching for a remedy for the evils of the time. The remedy already exists--it is the gift of one’s self to those who have fallen so low that even hope fails them.

Rene Bazin

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

this quote seems to fit my thinking..........thanx Art

"When angry count to four; when very angry, swear"--Mark Twain

where are my pants.....?

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
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Wayne Gretzky

delecto ergo sum

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

None are so blind as those who willl not see.

Keep rules to a minimum and enforce the ones you have.

Vince Dooley
College football coach
University of Georgia

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

~Lao-Tzu
philosopher (6th century BCE)

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.

Robert Southey
(1774-1843)
Poet

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Plautus
(c. 254-184 B.C.)
Playwright

Today, let’s give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

Daphne Rose Kingma

To be an adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand

If you're nice enough over a long enough peroid of time... she will sleep with you.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought.

~John F. Kennedy

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

African proverb

"Pan metron ariston."

("Everything in moderation.")

Ancient Greek saying.

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
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Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
-Jack Handey

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.

Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard (1733-1817)

But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means.

Thomas Pynchon, "V."

"Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage."
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George Foreman

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Caryl Haskins (1908-2001)
Scientist

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

~Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)