pareau
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posted on July 26, 2000 05:52:04 PM
Words to live by, laugh by, or just stop and think about. Your favorites. Here's one for AW's old timers, to start things off...
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. --Dale Carnegie
- Pareau
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willby
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posted on July 26, 2000 05:55:09 PM
Hi pareau - my favorite words to live by:
Do not negate another in order to affirm yourself. Affirmation comes from within, not at the expense of another.
Easy to believe, but harder to practice!
By the way, I don't know who said it. Got to find that out!
[ edited by willby on Jul 26, 2000 05:56 PM ]
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bunnicula
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posted on July 26, 2000 05:59:05 PM
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty
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xardon
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:02:36 PM
"If it weren't for half the people in this world, the other half would be all of them."
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kitsch1
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:08:00 PM
Before you criticize a man walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you criticize him you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
(Don't remember the attribution)
Kelly
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mauimoods
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:09:07 PM
"Believe half of what you hear and NOTHING of what you see"
"You never get a second chance to change a first impression"
"People will forget what you said and people will forget what you did, but people will NEVER forget how you made them FEEL"
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bunnicula
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:13:20 PM
Maui:  you listened in on my Mom, didn't you...she said all of that. To which she also added:
"If XXX jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?" 
Edited to add the immortal: "Of course I trust *you*--it's the others I'm worried about!"
[ edited by bunnicula on Jul 26, 2000 06:14 PM ]
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kitsch1
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:26:49 PM
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
(Virginia Woolf)
Kelly
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kitsch1
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posted on July 26, 2000 06:34:31 PM
"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."
Sounds like my menus!
(Buddy Hackett)
Kelly
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kiheicat
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:11:25 PM
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things!
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kiheicat
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:14:20 PM
Ok, on a more serious note, I'm not sure who I'm quoting here, but it's one of my favs:
"100 years from now,
It will not matter
What kind of house I lived in,
What kind of car I drove,
Or how much I had in my bank account...
What will matter
Is that I was important
In the life of a child."
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:17:26 PM
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde
[ edited by HartCottageQuilts on Jul 26, 2000 07:18 PM ]
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stockticker
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:26:08 PM
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. (Thomas Paine)
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jeanyu
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:26:23 PM
Whatever frightens you---do it. That fear is a valuable key. (annonymous)
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tegan
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:31:37 PM
Three of my favorite quotes:
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
Mother Theresa
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
"If stupidity got us into this mess why can't it get us out?"
Will Rogers
I for one can sit and read a book of quotes like it was a novel.
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pareau
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posted on July 26, 2000 07:55:36 PM
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -- A. A. Milne
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snowyegret
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posted on July 26, 2000 08:49:21 PM
"Do not live in a hurry."
Baltasar Gracian
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mybiddness
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posted on July 26, 2000 09:32:39 PM
"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!" -H.R. Haldeman
"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose." 
This one's my favorite:
"The years teach much which the days never knew." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rawbunzel
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posted on July 26, 2000 09:38:35 PM
Stephen King:
"Done bun can't be undone"
Mom:
"It all boils down to money"
oops! Forgot the quotation marks!
[ edited by Rawbunzel on Jul 26, 2000 09:40 PM ]
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pastorleon
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posted on July 26, 2000 10:01:03 PM
"I promise you there will be days when you would rather be anywhere in the world other than in this classroom. Yet I also promise that there will be days when there is no where in the world that you would rather be than in this classroom. The days in between will shape your life."
Pastor Leon's classroom motto.
Edited to add 
[ edited by pastorleon on Jul 26, 2000 10:02 PM ]
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bearmom
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posted on July 26, 2000 10:02:32 PM
Posted in my classroom-and probably illegal...
What you are is God's gift to you..
What you make of it is your gift to God.
Edited to add the other sign posted..
Thank God for the blessings you have received...
You might have gotten exactly what you deserved!
[ edited by bearmom on Jul 26, 2000 10:04 PM ]
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mimigigi
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posted on July 26, 2000 10:10:15 PM
Words to fight anxiety by:
"99% of the things you worry about, never happen."
"Don't borrow trouble."
Not sure who said them first, but they sure help.
Karin
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yorequest
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posted on July 26, 2000 10:11:05 PM
"I'll tell you everything I've learned....and Love was all he said."
Cat Stevens
Hi, Pastorleon! Tardy thanks for kind words aimed my way in another thread.
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sgtmike
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posted on July 26, 2000 10:16:19 PM
Code 800
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hellcat
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posted on July 27, 2000 03:04:32 PM
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
---Albert Einstein
edit for spacing
[ edited by hellcat on Jul 27, 2000 03:05 PM ]
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kitsch1
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posted on July 27, 2000 03:36:01 PM
If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.
Victor O'Reilly
Kelly
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gghost
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posted on July 27, 2000 03:42:17 PM
Make new friends
But keep the old
For the new are silver,
and the old are gold.
Sent to me when I was away in the service and a friend started dating my girl.
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xifene
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posted on July 27, 2000 04:51:48 PM
Never let school interfere with your education.
-Samuel Clemens
To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
--K. Graham
Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
-- Don't recall who said it.
--xifene--
http://www.auctionusers.org
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njrazd
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posted on July 27, 2000 05:20:58 PM
"If you want to hear God laugh, make plans."
***************
That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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toke
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posted on July 27, 2000 05:33:34 PM
What falls away is always. And is near.
Theodore Roethke
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