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Comedy is tragedy plus time. - Carol Burnett...Posted on May 13, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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What we love to do we find time to do. - John L. Spalding...Posted on May 12, 2008 4:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. - Douglas Noel Adams...Posted on May 11, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Take time every day to do something silly. - Philipa Walker...Posted on May 10, 2008 3:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. - John Milton...Posted on May 9, 2008 3:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Clark Hoover...Posted on May 7, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. - Louis Kronenberger...Posted on May 6, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius...Posted on May 5, 2008 4:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. - James E. Shapiro...Posted on May 4, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick...Posted on May 3, 2008 3:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams...Posted on May 2, 2008 3:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Wilson Reagan...Posted on May 1, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' - Roy Blount, Jr....Posted on April 30, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings. - Ruth Bernhard...Posted on April 29, 2008 3:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious. - S. M. Stirling...Posted on April 28, 2008 3:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. - Samuel Butler...Posted on April 27, 2008 3:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals....Posted on April 26, 2008 3:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time...Posted on April 25, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T. - Scott McNealy...Posted on April 24, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. - Sidney Goff...Posted on April 23, 2008 3:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost went back in time. - Steven Wright...Posted on April 22, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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One must learn a different ... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. - Sister Mary Paul...Posted on April 21, 2008 3:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man that has great advantages from nature and birth; whether the weight and number of so many men's thoughts and actions may not suppress his own or hinder...Posted on April 20, 2008 3:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Politicians are quite unfit for government. They are however very useful for ceremonial banquets, official openings, launchings, unveilings, and greeting foreign delegations, leaving more time for the genuine work of government to those of us who have the proper training...Posted on April 19, 2008 3:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time....Posted on April 18, 2008 3:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know...Posted on April 17, 2008 3:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, it's not the time that matters but how you answer the door. - Steve Gray...Posted on April 16, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Income-tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. - Shelby Friedman...Posted on April 15, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. - Spanish proverb...Posted on April 14, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates...Posted on April 13, 2008 3:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. - Travis Walton...Posted on April 12, 2008 3:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. -...Posted on April 11, 2008 3:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust. - Vicomte...Posted on April 10, 2008 3:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the...Posted on April 9, 2008 3:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny. - Woody Allen...Posted on April 8, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt...Posted on April 7, 2008 4:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. - Frank Vanderlip...Posted on April 6, 2008 4:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. - Oliver Goldsmith...Posted on April 5, 2008 3:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. - Nancy Astor...Posted on April 4, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all. - Pericles...Posted on April 3, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. - Iris Murdoch...Posted on April 2, 2008 3:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting...Posted on April 1, 2008 3:37 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. - Garrison Keillor...Posted on March 31, 2008 3:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain...Posted on March 30, 2008 3:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. - John Miller...Posted on March 29, 2008 3:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Lost time is never found again. - John H. Aughey...Posted on March 28, 2008 3:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the...Posted on March 27, 2008 3:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. - Francis H. Bradley...Posted on March 26, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. - Kingman Brewster, Jr...Posted on March 25, 2008 4:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split...Posted on March 24, 2008 3:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity. - Frank Lloyd Wright...Posted on March 23, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. - Robert Orben...Posted on March 22, 2008 3:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: What is my exciting thing for today? Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. - Barbara...Posted on March 21, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually, it loiters; but just when one has come to count on its slowness, it may...Posted on March 20, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Robert Darwin, 1809 - 1882...Posted on March 19, 2008 3:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958...Posted on March 18, 2008 3:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton, 1823 - 1871...Posted on March 17, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. - Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier), 1868 - 1951...Posted on March 16, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Was there a weight attached to the wheel of time, hanging from the month of May? Time went so slowly the rest of the year, as though it shoved a weight before it. In April, the wheel was in balance...Posted on March 15, 2008 3:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen...Posted on March 14, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Noel Adams...Posted on March 13, 2008 3:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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It is quite hard at times to distinguish a genius from a lunatic. - Dorothy Thompson...Posted on March 12, 2008 3:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish...Posted on March 11, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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What can be done at any time is never done at all. - English Proverb...Posted on March 10, 2008 3:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young...Posted on March 9, 2008 3:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings...Posted on March 8, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf...Posted on March 7, 2008 3:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox...Posted on March 6, 2008 3:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. - Elizabeth II...Posted on March 5, 2008 3:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am NOT an old lady, just a little girl with wrinkles. - Edythe E. Bregnard...Posted on March 4, 2008 3:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. - Eliezer Wiesel...Posted on March 3, 2008 3:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...Posted on March 2, 2008 4:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier...Posted on March 1, 2008 4:04 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Here we see how potent has been the effect of the introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the land had been enclosed so that cattle could not enter. But how important...Posted on February 29, 2008 4:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read Darwin for yourself....Posted on February 28, 2008 3:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read Darwin for yourself....Posted on February 27, 2008 3:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy...Posted on February 26, 2008 3:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks