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Post by andydp on Mar 19, 2022 14:19:39 GMT
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
Margaret Atwood
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Post by andydp on Mar 20, 2022 13:57:36 GMT
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
George Eliot
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Post by andydp on Mar 22, 2022 14:07:55 GMT
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
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Post by andydp on Mar 23, 2022 13:49:50 GMT
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker
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Post by andydp on Mar 24, 2022 16:36:12 GMT
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength.. “strongest wind cannot be seen."
Amy Tan
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Post by andydp on Mar 26, 2022 18:32:20 GMT
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
Madame de Stael
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Post by andydp on Mar 27, 2022 20:41:45 GMT
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
Grace Hopper
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Post by andydp on Mar 28, 2022 13:14:37 GMT
You're not really famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
Carrie Fisher
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Post by andydp on Mar 29, 2022 13:46:28 GMT
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 29, 2022 18:00:47 GMT
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston I'm hoping 2022 is a year that answers. A small hope... |
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Post by indy on Mar 29, 2022 18:12:21 GMT
I think I somehow missed all the years that answered questions.
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Post by andydp on Mar 30, 2022 13:47:02 GMT
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Florence Nightingale
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Post by andydp on Mar 31, 2022 13:12:14 GMT
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
Nikki Giovanni
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Post by andydp on Apr 1, 2022 13:09:08 GMT
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain
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Post by andydp on Apr 2, 2022 13:25:49 GMT
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith, retired University of North Carolina Coach
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Post by andydp on Apr 3, 2022 17:04:33 GMT
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter
Bonus one for today:
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir
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Post by andydp on Apr 4, 2022 14:01:59 GMT
Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
Al-Shafi‘i
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Post by andydp on Apr 5, 2022 12:17:52 GMT
If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
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Post by andydp on Apr 6, 2022 14:36:54 GMT
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maia Angelou
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Post by andydp on Apr 7, 2022 14:21:36 GMT
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Post by andydp on Apr 8, 2022 14:29:48 GMT
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Rob Sheffield
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Post by andydp on Apr 9, 2022 13:02:41 GMT
We often need to be refreshed.
Rumi
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Post by andydp on Apr 9, 2022 16:45:00 GMT
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Post by andydp on Apr 10, 2022 19:02:42 GMT
Basically, I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.
Woody Allen
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Post by andydp on Apr 11, 2022 13:08:10 GMT
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?
Ibn Taymiyyah
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