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If you live to be a

hundred, you’ve got it

made. Very few people

die past that age.

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-George Burns

vincent van gogh

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O house of Jacob, come,

let us walk in the light of

the Lord.

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-Isaiah 2:5

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There is no excellent beauty that hath

not some strangeness in the proportion.
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-Francis Bacon

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All of us tend to put off living. We are all

dreaming of some magical rose garden over

the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses

that are blooming outside our windows today.

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-Dale Carnegie

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The early bird gets the worm,

but the second mouse gets the

cheese.
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-Jon Hammond

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The difference between the right

word and the almost right word

is the difference between lightning

and a lightning bug.

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-Mark Twain

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There are some things you

learn best in calm, and some

in storm.

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–Willa Cather

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I have enough money to last me

the rest of my life,

unless I buy something.

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-Jackie Mason

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The grass withers

and the flowers fall,

but the word of our God

stands forever.

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-Isaiah 40:8

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Where lipstick is concerned, the important

thing is not color, but to accept God's final

word on where your lips end.

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–Jerry Seinfeld

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What is happiness except the

simple harmony between a man

and the life he leads?

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-Albert Camus

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Until one has loved an

animal, a part of one’s

soul remains unawakened.

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-Anatole France

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Hell is other people.

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-Jean Paul Sarte

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True friendship is a plant

of slow growth.

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-George Washington

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Life is one long process of
getting tired.
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-Samuel Butler

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Man's chief end is to

glorify God and to enjoy

him forever.

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-Westminster Shorter Catechism, 1647

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In films murders are always very clean.

I show how difficult it is and what a messy

thing it is to kill a man.

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-Alfred Hitchcock

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My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of

the universe; why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.

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-Stephen Hawking

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Don't count your chickens

before they're hatched.

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-Aesop

Go ahead. Make my day.

-Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

Not lifting weights doesn’t kill me. Therefore

not lifting weights makes me stronger.

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-Jack Handey

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Turn to me and be saved,

all you ends of the earth!

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-Isaiah 45:22

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They couldn't hit an elephant

at this distance.

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-last words of General John B. Sedgwick, 1864

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Evil is a point of view.

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-Anne Rice

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A moment of thinking is

an hour in words.

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-Thomas Hood

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The hardest thing to explain is the

glaringly evident which everybody

has decided not to see.

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-Ayn Rand

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Writing is hard work

and bad for the health.

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-E. B. White

Happy Monday. This stamp debuted for sale last Wednesday along with a set of five commemorating vintage black cinema. I was relaxing all last week in the mountains of Virginia at a family reunion and forgot to schedule a post highlighting the appearance of these new postage stamp options. Please go at once and make a purchase at your local post office, or click here to buy any or all available stamps online (it's only $1 shipping, no matter how many you get).

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Here's my favorite in the series of five new stamps mentioned above.

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Search the Scriptures.

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-John 5:39

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What beauty is, I know not,

though it adheres to many things.

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-Albrecht Durer

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Love:

a temporary insanity,

curable by marriage.

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-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000

ways that won’t work.

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-Thomas Edison

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Life is like an ice cream cone.

You have to lick it one day at a time.

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-Charlie Brown

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Wherever we go,

there we are.

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-Doug Wilson

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There's nothing like

staying at home for real

comfort.

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-Jane Austen

Not by might nor by power,

but by my Spirit

says the Lord.

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-Zechariah 4:6

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Life seems to go on without

effort when I am filled with

music.

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-George Elliot

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People ask for criticism,

but they only want praise.

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-W. Somerset Maugham

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I dont know about you but I'm celebrating the fact that they've reissued this happy stamp as a forty-two center. We used it on our family Christmas card last year and now Uncle Sam has given us the option of doing the same this Noel. It goes on sale today.

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You know you’re in love when

you can’t fall asleep because

reality is finally better than

your dreams.

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-Dr. Seuss

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Sometimes questions are

more important than

answers.

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-Nancy Willard

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A good way to deal with

predators is to taste

terrible.

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If you keep your mouth shut,

you will stay out of trouble.

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-Proverbs 21:23

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He's turned his life around. He used to be

depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable

and depressed.

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-David Frost

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And the rockets' red glare,

the bombs bursting in air...

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-Francis Scott Key

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Quiet persons are

welcome everywhere.

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-Thomas Fuller

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Someone's sitting in the

shade today because someone

planted a tree a long time ago.

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-Warren Buffet

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8Flies only live for two weeks.

8North Dakota has never had an

**earthquake.

8A Boeing 747 uses 4000 gallons

**of fuel just taking off.