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20th-Jun-2009 10:20 am - Carpe Diem
"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
16th-Jun-2009 08:25 pm - Age is an attitude.
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.  —Lady Nancy Astor
14th-Jun-2009 01:12 pm - to each according to his need?
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson
US critic (1895 - 1972)
11th-Jun-2009 10:06 pm - We don't get fooled again. . .
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." —George Orwell
6th-Jun-2009 01:04 pm - Beauty —Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.  —Coco Chanel
5th-Jun-2009 01:09 pm - Sleep when you're dead
If you rest, you rust.  —Helen Hayes
4th-Jun-2009 01:12 pm - Fighting Evil
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
28th-May-2009 03:43 pm - Ben, on luck
The harder I work, the luckier I get. —Ben Franklin
27th-May-2009 08:40 pm - Never give up.
It is never to late to be what you might have been —George Eliot
14th-May-2009 10:04 am - Go ahead, do it.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.  —Lucile Ball
4th-May-2009 02:07 pm - Growing up
"One day you wake up and realize you ARE the establishment."
3rd-May-2009 06:09 pm - We can't stop now.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in in. —Mother Teresa
22nd-Apr-2009 08:50 pm - About that fountain of youth.…
We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART!

20th-Apr-2009 07:39 pm - KISS
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
19th-Apr-2009 09:16 pm - It's not that complicated.
The wiser the soul, the greater the simplicity.
16th-Apr-2009 09:09 pm - I sure hope so.
"Everything Will Be Okay in the End. If It's Not Okay, It's Not the End."
14th-Apr-2009 09:15 pm - What are we thinking?
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke
13th-Apr-2009 04:22 pm - Information is power
. If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. -- —Mark Twain
13th-Apr-2009 08:30 am - Keep the Faith

You can still walk barefoot. You can still pick flowers. And you can still make a difference.
10th-Apr-2009 11:08 am - Uncle Sam giveth, and . . .
A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Gerald Ford

6th-Apr-2009 08:37 pm - Choose well . . .

 Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.  —Mae West

30th-Mar-2009 07:27 pm - Act, now.
The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today.  —Chinese Proverb
15th-Mar-2009 01:11 pm - You don't mean to, I know.
Nothing tortures so thoroughly as innocence.

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6th-Mar-2009 12:01 pm - Be careful . . .
Today is not your day,

And tomorrow's not looking so good.
5th-Mar-2009 11:51 am - Uh...
Saturday has a morning?
3rd-Mar-2009 11:59 am - And you're next
I'm very proud of myself when I resist the urge to kill anyone.
2nd-Mar-2009 11:55 am - Watch out, I'm coming!
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor the devil says, "Oh crap, she's up!"
1st-Mar-2009 11:53 am - No,
Chocolate is Sanity
28th-Feb-2009 11:38 am - It's always the hard way.
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight  The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.  —Gail Godwin.
27th-Feb-2009 12:59 pm - And then I said . . .
I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
26th-Feb-2009 01:11 pm - Never give up.
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.  —Walt Disney
25th-Feb-2009 10:58 pm - Strength
Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big your God is!
24th-Feb-2009 11:01 pm - In the Trenches
Raising kids is part Joy and part guerrilla warfare.
16th-Feb-2009 07:55 pm - Miracles?
Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.  A. Einstein
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.    Saint Augustine
1st-Feb-2009 01:29 pm - Open your eyes
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.    —Auntie Mame
24th-Jan-2009 02:24 pm - Reality, as an Equation

"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).


22nd-Jan-2009 11:28 am - If it was easy, we'd all be there.
"There is no elevator to success-- you have to take the stairs."
17th-Jan-2009 04:35 pm - Nothing is neutral
"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)
9th-Jan-2009 08:34 am - It's a spectrum, you know.

"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
18th-Nov-2008 09:35 am - Experience
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. —Abigail Van Buren
15th-Nov-2008 08:59 pm - Outlook on life
Cynics have wittier aphorisms than optimists
9th-Nov-2008 08:27 pm - Just wait . . .

Our patience will achieve more than our force.  Edmund Burke


2nd-Nov-2008 02:13 pm - You never know

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
30th-Oct-2008 02:18 pm - You want what?
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert Heinlein

21st-Oct-2008 09:06 pm - Our Universe
 " 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."
20th-Oct-2008 04:53 pm - Dr. McCoy's Prayer

"Angels and ministers of grace defend us." —Wm. Shakespspeare   Hamlet
19th-Oct-2008 02:08 am - The Home
Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.  —Phyllis Diller
18th-Oct-2008 02:05 am - Real Self Worth
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.  —Jane Haddam
17th-Oct-2008 07:32 pm - Hello God?

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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