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Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D�haese



Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner



Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor



Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg



Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown



Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. ~John Dewey



We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. ~Sandra Day O'Connor



Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail. ~Author Unknown



Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb



Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason



Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~Stephen Leacock



It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ~Rachel Carson



Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown



Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ~Lucy Larcom