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"I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work"

Thomas Edison

 

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Winston Churchill

 

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted

Aesop

 

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful"

Eric Thomas - The Hip Hop Preacher

 

"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"

Johnny Cochran

 

"Don't you think if I were wrong I'd know it?"

Sheldon Cooper

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On 4/2/2018 at 9:21 PM, FritzIam4IU said:

Today you are you

That is truer than true

There is No one alive who is you-er than you.

-Dr. Seuss

I yam what I yam

 

-Popeye

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A day late....

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-Martin Luther King

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  • 2 weeks later...

Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,
In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. 
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

                 - William Shakespeare

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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, 
In proving foresight may be vain: 
The best-laid schemes o' Mice an' Men 
         Gang aft agley, 
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, 
         For promis'd joy!

Still thou are blest, compared wi' me! 
The present only toucheth thee: 
But Och! I backward cast my e'e, 
         On prospects drear! 
An' forward, tho' I cannot see, 
         I guess an' fear!

                                    - Robert Burns

Also, if you ever wondered where Steinbeck got the name for his novel "Of Mice and Men," I think you've received your answer.

P.S. Don't you just love the Scottish dialect?

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Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

You run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
And the sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

                   - Roger Waters

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The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; 
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance. 
The trenches have vanished long under the plow; 
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. 
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land 
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand 
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. 
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. 

                          - Eric Bogle

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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
                                   - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Given that the IRS website blew up yesterday, this is the theme for today:

"...in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes."

-Benjamin Franklin

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