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You don’t have to deserve

your mother’s love. You

have to deserve your father’s.

He’s more particular.

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-Robert Frost

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In order to be happy in your work you must be fit

for it; you must not do too much of it; and you must

have a sense of success in it.

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-John Ruskin

sam brown

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Shout for joy to the Lord

all the earth!
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-Psalm 100:1

neil pinkett

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We're all in this alone.

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-Lily Tomlin

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There is no wisdom

like frankness.

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-Benjamin Disraeli

BLOGGING

Never have so many people with so little to

say said so much to so few.

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-Despair.com

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The best lack all conviction,

while the worst are full of

passionate intensity.

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-William Butler Yeats

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Eighty percent of success

is showing up.

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-Woody Allen

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A smile is the chosen vehicle

for all ambiguities.

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-Herman Melville

lori walters

Blessed is the one

whose delight is in

the law of the Lord;

who meditates on it

day and night.

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-Psalm 1: 2

john golden

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All truly great

thoughts are conceived

while walking.

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-Friedrich Nietsche

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Nothing great was ever

accomplished without

enthusiasm.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dogs are better than people

because they know but do not tell.

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-Emily Dickinson

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8A sneeze travels over 100 mph.

8A bolt of lightning is six times hotter

than the sun.

8The female mayfly (after her larvae stage)

lives for about five minutes.

anne sessler

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting the woman who created this captivating print. Her name is Annie Sessler and she is the artist who runs East End Fish Prints. Her studio is in Montauk, New York where I happened to be for a family wedding. I couldn't resist tracking down her phone number and giving her a call. Darn if she didn't come to the little diner (where my family and I were having breakfast) to say hello. Her husband catches these exotic fish and she carefully "inks" them and creates a unique print. The only embellishment is the eye. To see more of her work just click the image above.

andy warhol

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If life was fair, Elvis would be

alive and all the impersonators

would be dead.

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-Johnny Carson

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He who works his land will

have abundant food.

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-Proverbs 12:11

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The quickest way of ending a

war is to lose it.

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-George Orwell

sam brown

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I've written some poetry

I don't understand myself.

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-Carl Sandburg

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Never do a wrong thing

to make a friend or

to keep one.

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-Robert E. Lee

lowen howard

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Anything looked at closely
becomes wonderful.
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-A. R. Ammons

carol marine

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An apple a day keeps
the doctor away.

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He who cannot forgive others

breaks the bridge over which he

must pass himself.

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-George Herbert

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With the same measure you

use, it will be measured

to you.

-Mark 5:24

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We are all in the gutter,

but some of us are looking

at the stars.

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-Oscar Wilde

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Life is something that happens

when you can't get to sleep.

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-Fran Lebowitz

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Everything should be made

as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

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-Albert Einstein

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It wasn't raining when

Noah built the ark.

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-Howard Ruff

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To the man who is afraid

everything rustles.

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-Sophocles

Dress your mail with the latest and greatest.

Available as of today from your local post office.

henri matisse

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Is it not from the mouth of

the Most High that good

and bad come?

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-Lamentations 3:38

philip webb

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***Palindromes***

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Do geese see God?

Naomi, did I moan?

Yo banana boy.

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There are two ways of spreading light:

to be the candle or the mirror

that reflects it.

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-Edith Wharton

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The ornament of a house is

the friends who frequent it.

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-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Television is to news

what bumper stickers are

to philosophy.

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-Richard Nixon

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By a small sample we may

judge of the whole piece.

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-Miguel de Cervantes

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Without labor

nothing prospers.
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-Sophocles

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I gave in and admitted

that God was God.

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-C. S. Lewis

man ray

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It is easier to resist at the

beginning than at the end.

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-Leonardo da Vinci

All men’s miseries derive

from not being able to sit

in a quiet room alone.

-Blaise Pascal

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Politics consists in choosing between

the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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-John Kenneth Galbraith

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Adventure is just bad

planning.

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-Roald Amundsen

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Sleep, riches, and health

to be truly enjoyed must

be interrupted.

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-Johann Richter

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There's a fine line between fishing and

just standing on the shore like an idiot.

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-Steven Wright

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There is no pit so deep but

Christ is deeper still.

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-Corrie ten Boom

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Most men pursue pleasure

with such breathless haste

that they hurry past it.

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-Soren Kierkegaard

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The least I can do is speak out

for those who cannot speak for

themselves.

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-Jane Goodall

annie huntington

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I have heard the mermaids singing,

each to each.

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-T. S. Eliot

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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon;

to me those have always been the most

beautiful words in the English language.

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-Henry James

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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says

otherwise is selling something.

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-The Princess Bride