Positive Quote Of The Day December 2012

[pjbs35a]

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

-- Ruth McKenney

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, forthe preservation of self-approval.

-- Minot Simons

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.

-- John Richelsen

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.

-- Tillotson

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

-- Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

-- Tyron Edwards

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

-- A.W. Pinero

[pjbs35a]

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

-- Stewart L. Udall (1920- ) American Politician

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

-- James Lane Allen (1849-1925) American Author

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Patience is passion tamed.

-- Lyman Abbott

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher


12/12/12

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

[pjbs35a]

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. -- Glenn Clark

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.

-- Ernest L. Woodward

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.

-- John Henry Patterson

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

-- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

-- Howard W. Newton

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

-- Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

Very true:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.

-- Unknown

[pjbs35a]

There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it,let him earn it honestly.

-- Anthony Trollope, from "The Duke's Children"


Merry Christmas To All!!

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.

-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

-- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

-- Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American Journalist

[Jeff]

Sometimes, on Friday game nights I apparently am not an intelligent man!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

-- George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

[pjbs35a]

Sometimes, on Friday game nights I apparently am not an intelligent man!:thumbsup:

Kids will have that effect on adults! ;)

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet

[Jeff]

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