March 2009
103 posts
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“It is anatomically impossible to lick your elbow,
75% of the people...”
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“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
– Yogi Berra
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“People who spend too much time worrying over being hurt by others, never realize...”
– Martin Luther King
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“Family isn’t [just] about whose blood you have. It’s about who you...”
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike’s Wee Wee, 1998
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“no matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”
– Margaret Mead
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“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put...”
– Confucius
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“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe,...”
– Pearl S. Buck
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“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever...”
– Jane Howard
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“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box...”
– Margaret Mead
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“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more...”
– unknown
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“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
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“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute-by-minute, day by dragging day in...”
– Stephen Vincent Benet
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“A Man from the town of Negua, on the coast of Columbia, could climb the sky.
On...”
– Eduardo Galeano
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“Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not...”
– Pico Iyer, “Quit Pro Quotes”, Utne Reader, Sept./Oct. 1996
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“I had assumed that traveling was the crap bit you had to tolerate in order to...”
– William Sutcliffe, Are You Experienced? (1998)
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“Worldwide, we are seeing the transformation of cultures into ‘local color’,...”
– Davydd J. Greenwood, “Culture By the Pound”, from Valene L. Smith’s Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (1977)
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“Graceful dancing still abounds for those who are romantic … But the modern...”
– Doris Humphrey (1895-1958)
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“Dancing … is a living language which speaks directly to all humankind...”
– Mary Wigman (1886-1973)
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“A little experience can upset a lot of theory.”
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“Each day silently affirm that you are the type of person with whom you would...”
– Bob Moawad
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are...”
– m. scott peck
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“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except...”
– jane jacobs
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“The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you...”
– Ingrid Bengis
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“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely...”
– Isak Dinesen
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“The hardest part is what to leave behind, … It’s time to let go!”
– Winnie the Pooh
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“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate...”
– william blum
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“Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,...”
– billie holiday
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“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the...”
– Christian Nevell Bovee
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
arte es la unica manera...”
– twyla thorp
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“we have become so preoccupied with fear that we fail to notice that we hold the...”
– anonymous
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“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into...”
– Mother theresa
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“Our lives only improve when we take chances, and the first and most difficult...”
– walter anderson
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“try not be become a being of success, but a being of value”
– Einstein (the original quote is with “man” instead of “being”
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“we can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
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“sashe away!
The time has come for you to lip sing for your life!
Laughter...”
– Rupaul on Rupaul’s Drag Race
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“you fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun”
– fiona apple (thanks sheila!)
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“You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (thanks sheila!)
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“ignorance is inexcusable, stupidity is wonderful”
– me!
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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.”
– Sam Brown
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“The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right...”
– Warren Buffett
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
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“Haz bien sin mirar a quien
Do good regardless of who it is for.”
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving...”
– Lin Yutang
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
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“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything...”
– H.L. Mencken