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| "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller | |
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| I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. —Lady Nancy Astor
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| - There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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| "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." —George Orwell | |
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| Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. —Coco Chanel
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| If you rest, you rust. —Helen Hayes
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| It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. —Harry Dresden
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| The harder I work, the luckier I get. —Ben Franklin | |
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| It is never to late to be what you might have been —George Eliot | |
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| I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. —Lucile Ball | |
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| "One day you wake up and realize you ARE the establishment."
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| To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in in. —Mother Teresa
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| We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART!
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| Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction. ~Albert Einstein | |
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| The wiser the soul, the greater the simplicity.
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| "Everything Will Be Okay in the End. If It's Not Okay, It's Not the End."
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| Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke | |
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| . If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. -- —Mark Twain | |
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| You can still walk barefoot. You can still pick flowers. And you can still make a difference.
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| A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Gerald Ford
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| Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. —Mae West | |
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| The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today. —Chinese Proverb
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| Nothing tortures so thoroughly as innocence.
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| Today is not your day,
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| I'm very proud of myself when I resist the urge to kill anyone.
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| Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor the devil says, "Oh crap, she's up!"
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| None of us suddenly becomes something overnight The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime. —Gail Godwin. | |
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| I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
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| All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney
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| Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big your God is! | |
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| Raising kids is part Joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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| Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous. A. Einstein | |
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| Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine | |
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| Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. —Auntie Mame | |
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| "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
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| "There is no elevator to success-- you have to take the stairs." | |
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| "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) | |
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| "I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin." ~ Jerry Newport
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| If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. —Abigail Van Buren | |
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| Cynics have wittier aphorisms than optimists
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| Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke
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| "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
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| Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. Robert Heinlein
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| " God must have known there would be Autistic children and in honor of them, he made the planets in the solar system spin round and round." | |
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| "Angels and ministers of grace defend us." —Wm. Shakespspeare Hamlet
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| Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home. —Phyllis Diller
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| In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. —Jane Haddam | |
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| Thomas Szasz’s classic observation, “If you talk to God, that’s called prayer; but if God talks to you, you’re schizophrenic,” needs to be appended to include, “unless you’re revered by millions of gullible sycophants.”
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