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  <title>Moments of Wisdom</title>
  <subtitle>I've stumbled upon along the way</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Sherron Ostrander</name>
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  <updated>2009-12-18T18:15:00Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:102337</id>
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    <title>Play it as it lays . . .</title>
    <published>2009-12-18T18:15:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-18T18:15:00Z</updated>
    <category term="attitude"/>
    <category term="playing"/>
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    <content type="html">Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.  —Robert Louis Stevenson</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:102079</id>
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    <title>Morning</title>
    <published>2009-12-15T18:05:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-15T18:05:41Z</updated>
    <content type="html">A day without caffeine is like . . . Sleep</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:101712</id>
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    <title>sherron @ 2009-12-09T11:19:00</title>
    <published>2009-12-09T17:19:59Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-09T17:19:59Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:101405</id>
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    <title>Go forth and multiply . . .</title>
    <published>2009-12-07T20:38:27Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-07T21:11:54Z</updated>
    <content type="html">"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."&lt;br /&gt;-- source unknown</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:101259</id>
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    <title>Attitude is still everything.</title>
    <published>2009-12-05T20:41:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-05T20:41:09Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;When life gives you lemons, ask for salt and Tequila and call me over. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:100908</id>
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    <title>Attitude is still everything.</title>
    <published>2009-12-04T16:31:24Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-04T16:31:24Z</updated>
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    <category term="wrong"/>
    <category term="elvis"/>
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    <content type="html">When things go wrong, don't go with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Elvis Presley</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:100681</id>
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    <title>Smile First</title>
    <published>2009-12-02T22:37:47Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-02T22:37:47Z</updated>
    <category term="wisdom"/>
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    <category term="happiness"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The wiser you are, the easier things are.  But the happier you are, the less easy you need.&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:100458</id>
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    <title>Faith</title>
    <published>2009-12-02T02:33:26Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-02T02:33:26Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;d.  &amp;mdash;St. Augustine&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:100338</id>
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    <title>Not me, I'll always be 42.</title>
    <published>2009-11-30T22:37:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-30T22:37:15Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll grow out of it.    &amp;mdash;Doris Day&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:100020</id>
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    <title>Don't get too carried away</title>
    <published>2009-11-29T20:38:28Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-29T20:38:28Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Perfect is the enemy of the good enough.&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:99749</id>
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    <title>Take a chance.</title>
    <published>2009-11-20T15:20:39Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T15:20:39Z</updated>
    <category term="dare"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Dare. It's always worth it. &lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:99330</id>
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    <title>Realists</title>
    <published>2009-11-18T15:02:06Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-23T23:36:16Z</updated>
    <category term="pessimism"/>
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    <content type="html">           &lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;adjusts the sails&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;rdquo; -William Arthur Ward.&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:99274</id>
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    <title>The tests of friendship</title>
    <published>2009-10-28T03:46:22Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-01T14:21:16Z</updated>
    <category term="friend"/>
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    <category term="test"/>
    <category term="drive"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Real friends are the ones that still get in the car with you no matter how many times you nearly killed them&lt;/span&gt;.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:98882</id>
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    <title>Stop, smell the roses.</title>
    <published>2009-10-21T18:47:07Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-21T18:47:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. &amp;mdash;Marianne Williamson&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:98581</id>
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    <title>Keeping up with the Joneses</title>
    <published>2009-10-20T18:32:39Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-20T18:32:39Z</updated>
    <content type="html">At twenty we worry about what others think of us. At forty we don't care what others think of us. At sixty we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:98531</id>
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    <title>Love</title>
    <published>2009-10-19T19:15:17Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-19T19:15:17Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Diane Arbus&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:98195</id>
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    <title>Have Faith</title>
    <published>2009-09-25T19:07:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-25T19:07:34Z</updated>
    <content type="html">             &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Cochin;"&gt;Proverbs 3:5-6&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Cochin;"&gt;Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:97833</id>
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    <title>Step away from the . . .</title>
    <published>2009-09-22T23:01:53Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-22T23:01:53Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Dilbert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:97046</id>
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    <title>Do or not do, there is no try</title>
    <published>2009-09-15T17:58:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-15T17:58:40Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Stephen Dolley. Jr.&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:96844</id>
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    <title>Slowly but surely</title>
    <published>2009-09-14T18:20:17Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-14T18:20:17Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. &amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Chinese Proverb&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:96433</id>
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    <title>Attitude is still everything.</title>
    <published>2009-09-01T04:14:10Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-01T04:14:10Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Roger Miller&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:96019</id>
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    <title>Ourselves</title>
    <published>2009-08-30T12:40:49Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-30T12:40:49Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Life isn't about finding yourself.&amp;nbsp; Life is about creating yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:sherron:95984</id>
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    <title>Watch Out</title>
    <published>2009-08-29T08:36:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-29T08:36:30Z</updated>
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    <category term="women"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: larger;"&gt;Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Dorothy Sayers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Age is an attitude.</title>
    <published>2009-06-17T01:26:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-17T01:26:57Z</updated>
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    <category term="lies"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.&amp;nbsp; &amp;mdash;Lady Nancy Astor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>to each according to his need?</title>
    <published>2009-06-14T18:14:21Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-14T18:14:21Z</updated>
    <category term="poverty"/>
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    <category term="edmund wilson"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;blockquote class="quotebig"&gt; &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd class="author"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Edmund_Wilson/"&gt;Edmund Wilson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;US critic  (1895 - 1972)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;</content>
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