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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, May 18, 2012 - 6:58 am 
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 2:48 pm
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardize your chances of promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts, and, before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high.
-- Jimmy Reid
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 21, 2012 - 7:39 am
No one ever said on their deathbed, "Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone on my computer."
-- Danielle Berry
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 28, 2012 - 7:06 pm
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary for happiness.
-- Marie Corelli
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 05, 2012 - 5:45 pm
If you fall, I'll be there.
-- Floor
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 01, 2012 - 6:38 am
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2012 - 3:39 pm
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.
The central liberal truth is that politics can change culture and save it from itself.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 4:47 am
You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 5:30 pm
Ain't that the truth, OI. I wouldn't go back there for the world.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 13, 2012 - 3:52 am
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
-- Sydney J. Harris
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, August 25, 2012 - 5:25 am
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
-- Marcel Marceau
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 3:35 am
When you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 3:44 pm
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
--Ernest Hemingway
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, October 06, 2012 - 5:40 am
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 07, 2012 - 5:00 am
If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc. . . .
-- Anne Frank
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 6:34 am
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
-- Mother Theresa
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 5:09 pm
OI, thank you for the quotes - I read them whenever they're posted even if I don't respond. Colossus prepares a weekly email for all of his friends called "Thoughts for your Weekend." I need to show him your series of quotes, I'm sure he'd find them informative and useful.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 11:48 am
Thanks GAL! 
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 11:50 am
Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain momentary outbreaks occur when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained and to soar impetuously toward heaven.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 11:52 am
Socialism never took root in Amerca because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
-- John Steinbeck
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Monday, March 18, 2013 - 4:19 pm
Good to see you back in here, OI.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, March 18, 2013 - 5:39 pm
America is like a friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 3:34 am
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate.
-- Margaret Mead
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 3:33 am
They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-- George Carlin
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 22, 2013 - 2:42 am
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
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