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post #721 of 1694
10/21/12 at 5:40am
"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." Gibert K. Chesterton
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post #722 of 1694
10/21/12 at 6:30am
Better slow going somewhere than fast going nowhere.
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post #723 of 1694
10/21/12 at 6:50am
Better late in this world than early in the next
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post #724 of 1694
10/21/12 at 7:21am
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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post #725 of 1694
10/21/12 at 7:40am
(*Context: Was at my college homecoming last night. The topic of children and the cost of child care came up. This led to the cost as you have more and more children. Eventually, the Duggars came up, to which a drunk friend shouted this...)

"A vagina is not a clown car!!"
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post #726 of 1694
10/21/12 at 4:11pm
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Do not burn your bridges on the path forward in case you need to go back.
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post #727 of 1694
10/22/12 at 4:05am
Let tomorrow take care of itself.
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post #728 of 1694
10/22/12 at 5:51am
"New roads; new ruts." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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post #729 of 1694
10/22/12 at 6:02am
"Before Christ does something great through you, He wants to do something great in you." - Perry Noble
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post #730 of 1694
10/22/12 at 6:03am
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"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."
-Unknown
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post #731 of 1694
10/22/12 at 6:07am
Opportunities slide away like clouds.
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post #732 of 1694
10/22/12 at 5:47pm
" A true friend stabs you in the front" – Oscar Wilde
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post #733 of 1694
10/23/12 at 3:18am
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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post #734 of 1694
10/23/12 at 3:22am
Those who fail to prepare, are preparing to fail.
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post #735 of 1694
10/23/12 at 3:36am
"Civilization became the day people started using words instead of stones to hurt someone"
S. Freud
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post #736 of 1694
10/23/12 at 5:37am
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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post #737 of 1694
10/23/12 at 7:56am
Real leaders have no need to lead. They are content to point the way.
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post #738 of 1694
10/23/12 at 8:24am
This is really just an awesome quote:


"It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky." -Dostoevsky, White Nights
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post #739 of 1694
10/23/12 at 4:34pm
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
- Aristotle
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post #740 of 1694
10/23/12 at 5:48pm
Sorrow looks back,
Worry looks around,
Faith looks up
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post #741 of 1694
10/23/12 at 6:26pm
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"You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think."
-Walter Anderson
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post #742 of 1694
10/24/12 at 3:06am
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The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
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post #743 of 1694
10/24/12 at 3:14am
If you cant explain it to a six year old, you dont understand it yourself.
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post #744 of 1694
10/24/12 at 4:07am
Don’t borrow trouble.
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post #745 of 1694
10/24/12 at 5:33am
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not." H. L. Mencken
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post #746 of 1694
10/24/12 at 9:46am
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"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
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post #747 of 1694
10/25/12 at 2:16am
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If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
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post #748 of 1694
10/25/12 at 3:17am
The mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work unless its open.
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post #749 of 1694
10/25/12 at 5:43am
"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married." H. L. Mencken
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post #750 of 1694
10/25/12 at 9:08am
Don’t ask of others what you yourself can do.
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post #751 of 1694
10/25/12 at 11:59am
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"Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer."
-Author Unknown
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post #752 of 1694
10/26/12 at 2:34am
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Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
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post #753 of 1694
10/26/12 at 3:26am
Keep smiling It makes people wonder what youve been up to.
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post #754 of 1694
10/26/12 at 5:43am
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." H. L. Mencken
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post #755 of 1694
10/26/12 at 5:54am
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"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. "
- Ivern Ball, on Responsibility
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post #756 of 1694
10/26/12 at 7:28am
Don’t spit into the wind.
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post #757 of 1694
10/27/12 at 2:54am
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On any path it's not the destination that matters the most but the journey.
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post #758 of 1694
10/27/12 at 5:06am
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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post #759 of 1694
10/27/12 at 5:50am
"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." H. L. Mencken
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post #760 of 1694
10/27/12 at 6:10am
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-Albert Einstein
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post #761 of 1694
10/27/12 at 9:55pm
Live the life before it leaves you.
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post #762 of 1694
10/28/12 at 3:17am
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

----Ogden Nash
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post #763 of 1694
10/28/12 at 3:55am
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I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde
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post #764 of 1694
10/28/12 at 6:21am
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." M. L. Mencken
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post #765 of 1694
10/28/12 at 7:53am
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
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post #766 of 1694
10/28/12 at 7:58am
If you cant cook dont tell someone their food needs salt.
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post #767 of 1694
10/28/12 at 8:09am
"If you've never had an 'Oh, crap' moment, you've never heard from God." - Perry Noble
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post #768 of 1694
10/28/12 at 9:30am
Form follows function.
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post #769 of 1694
10/28/12 at 9:51am
Don't judge a book if your not a judge.

Birds of the same feather, are the same birds.
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post #770 of 1694
10/29/12 at 2:28am
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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post #771 of 1694
10/29/12 at 2:57am
If you are wiser than some, many are probably wiser than you.
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post #772 of 1694
10/29/12 at 3:19am
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." H. L. Mencken
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post #773 of 1694
10/29/12 at 4:03am
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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post #774 of 1694
10/29/12 at 6:26am
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"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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post #775 of 1694
10/29/12 at 7:35am
If thou wouldst keep money, save money. If thou wouldst reap money, sow money.
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post #776 of 1694
10/29/12 at 1:09pm
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli
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post #777 of 1694
10/30/12 at 2:56am
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde
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post #778 of 1694
10/30/12 at 3:25am
People may doubt what you say but they always believe what you do.
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post #779 of 1694
10/30/12 at 7:53am
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." H. L. Mencken
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post #780 of 1694
10/30/12 at 8:42am
Riches, like dung, stinks in a heap,..but when spread abroad, it makes the whole earth fruitful.
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