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Welcome to page two of the archives!
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10~11~00
"The greatest difficulty lies not in persuading people
to accept new ideas,
but in persuading them to abandon old ones."
*John Maynard Keynes*

"The key to change ... is to let go of fear."
*Roseanne Cash*

"If a diamond needs to be cut and polished,
it should be prepared to take the friction that goes with the process."
*Greg Mashapa*

"Perfectionism is a neurotic illusion." *Unknown*

"The number one reason we forget
is because we aren't paying attention in the first place."
*Lynn Stern*

"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what you want them to achieve and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
*General George S. Patton*

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
*Mark Twain*

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use,
would make of you everything you ever dreamed
or imagined you could become." *Orison Swett Marden*

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life,
choose a sense of humor." *Jennifer Jones*

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naïve forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget."
*Thomas Szasz*

"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says
while he's in love, drunk or running for office."
*Shirley McLaine*

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
*George C. Scott*

10~5~00
"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
*Harriet Beecher Stowe*

"Without inspriation the best powers of the mind remain dormant,
there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."
*Johann Gottfried Von Herder*

"All men make mistakes,
but only wise men learn from their mistakes."
*Winston Churchill*

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."
*Thomas Jefferson*

"If the eyes are looked upon as the windows to the soul,
then a smile must be the doorway the heart." *Anonymous*

"Life breaks us all, but afterwards,
many of us are strongest at the broken places."
*Ernest Hemingway*

9/28/00
"The grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for."
*Allan K. Chalmers*

"Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
*Will Rogers*

"Every exit is an entry somewhere." *Tom Stoppard*

"Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you."
*Aldous Huxley*

"Creative minds have always been known
to survive any kind of bad training." *Anna Freud*

"Do not rely completely on any other human being,
however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone."
*Agnes McPhail*

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
*Oscar Wilde*

"The best way to cheer yourself up
is to try to cheer somebody else up."
*Mark Twain*

"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
*Eleanor Roosevelt*

"You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
**Ziggy**

"People take different roads
seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
*H. Jackson Browne*

9/22/00
"Like my old skleenball coach used to say,
'Find out what you don't do well, then don't do it.'" *Alf*

"Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles,
it empties today of its strength." *Unknown*

"Man cannot live by words alone,
though he is sometimes forced to eat them."
*Adlai Stevenson*

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." *Theophrastus*

"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy."
*Unknown*

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." *Batman*

"I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me
to see things her way." *Jayson Feinburg*

"Humble, that's me... Mr. Modesty.
When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
*Bullwinkle J. Moose*

"The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that
our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom."
*Frank Whitmore*

Young views on Science....
Concerning astronomy, one child said, "Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime." And another said, "Some people can tell what time it is my looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers."

"Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things
people forget to put the top on," one child observed.

"Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail," reported a budding meteorologist. Another added, "Thunder is a rich source of loudness."

"It is so hot in some places
that the people there have to live in other places."
And, "The wind is like the air, only pushier."

"It's not denial... I'm just very selective about the reality Iaccept."
*Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"*

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics
are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." *Plato*

9/21/00
Here are some whose authors are 'unknown'
but they are worth adding to the list:

"No books will be as good as the ones you loved as a child."

"Never give yourself a haircut after three martinis."

"When baking, follow directions.
When cooking, go by your own taste."

"If you tell a lie, don't believe it deceives only the other person."

"The five most essential words for a healthy, vital relationship:
"I apologize" and "You are right".

"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."

"When you make a mistake, make amends immediately.
It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm."

"If he says that you are too good for him--believe it."

"I've learned to pick my battles; I ask myself,
Will this matter one year from now?
How about one month? One week? One day?"

"At hard times I ask myself, How do I feel? What do I want?
I use it whenever I'm at loss for words or thoughts."

"If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!"

"Never under estimate the kindness of your fellow man."

"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect,
it just means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections."

9/20/00
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all." *Emily Dickenson*
If you are a Dickenson fan, I found a website
with MANY entries of her works:
Emily Dickenson

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties:
you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."
*Phyllis Bottome*

"Life is the first gift, love is the second,
and understanding the third." *Marge Piercy*

"The more of the past you carry around,
the less of the present there is room for."
*Dalton Roberts*

"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress."
*Mark Twain*

"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8,
the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'"
*Gary Larson* {"The Far Side"}

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
*Yogi Berra*

"The two most abundant elements in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity." *Harlan Ellison*

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*

"Vision without Action is a daydream.
Action without Vision is a nightmare."
*Japanese Proverb*

"In any moment of decision
the best thing you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
*Theodore Roosevelt*

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
*John Wooden*

9/18/00
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
*Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back"*

"Be not simply good; be good for something." *Unknown*

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits
with my net income." *Errol Flynn*

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
*Abraham Lincoln*

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
*Eleanor Roosevelt*

"Nothing travels faster than light,
with the possible exception of bad news,
which follows its own rules." *Douglas Adams*

"Don't count your checks before they're cashed." *Anonymous*

"If you can't find a lawyer who knows the law,
find a lawyer who knows the judge. *Unknown*

"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
*Thomas Fuller*

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America,
and the only regret I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder
in school so I could converse with those people."
*Dan Quayle*

"A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject."
*Winston Churchill*

"Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive."
*Hubbard's Law*

"Old age ain't no place for sissies." *Bette Davis*

" Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows."
*Jennifer Unlimited*

" I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes
several days attack me at once." *Jennifer Unlimited*

"If you can't be a good example, then
you'll just have to be a horrible warning." *Catherine Aird*

"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together
and your body starts falling apart." *Caryn Leschen*

"Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee."
*Stephanie Piro*

"It is not true that we have only one life to live;
if we can read, we can live as many more lives
and as many kinds of lives as we wish. *S. I. Hayakawa*

9/17/00
"The American people would not want to know
of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
*Vice President Dan Quayle* {LOL}

"Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat
and the Sun goes around it." *Anonymous*

"Let tears flow of their own accord :
their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."
*Seneca*

"Do not ask God the way to heaven, he will show you the hardest way."
*Stanislaw Lec*

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
*Oprah Winfrey*

"Marriage is an investment that always pays dividends,
but only if you pay interest."
*Unknown*

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity."
*Albert Einstein*

"Do not do what you would undo if caught." *Leah Arendt*

"Teach only love for that is what you are." *A Course in Miracles*

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." *Pearl Bailey*

"Never let an opportunity pass to hug the ones you Love."
*Susan A. Peterson*