Quote for the day

[Againsheila]

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990);
American Behaviorist, Author, Inventor, And Social Philosopher

 

[Bloodrock44]

The civil war? You mean when the Yankees invaded America!-Granny Clampett

 

[Againsheila]

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus
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[Esmeralda]

Tseng-tzu 2 said: “Thrice daily I ask myself: ‘Have I been unfaithful in dealing for others? Have I been untrue to friends? Do I practise what I preach?’”

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff."

Doctor Who

 

[Againsheila]

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
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[Ropey]

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

- Oscar Levant

 

[Derideo_Te]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

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[Ropey]

"It's Not Easy Being Green."

-kermit

 

[Esmeralda]

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Esmeralda]

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Esmeralda]

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people." ~ Virginia Woolf

 

[Bloodrock44]

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?- Mae West

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation."

John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

 

[Againsheila]

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
- F Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Againsheila]

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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[Againsheila]

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
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[Book of Jeremiah]

The most accomplished runner is capable of a fall.