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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

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Originally posted by apathist
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau
"When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it."

Boris Pasternak

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"Sorry to have written such a long letter but I did not have time to write a short one."
(Pascal, Frost, various others) My favorite, "... but was pressed for time".

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We all shine on.

--John Winston-Ono Lennon

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

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knowledge may give weight, but accomplisments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
knowledge may give weight, but accomplisments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein

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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." (Michel de Montaigne)

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." (Michel de Montaigne)
Variety is the very spice of life
That gives it all its flavor

(William Cowper)

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“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”


John C. Maxwell

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Originally posted by checkbaiter
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”


John C. Maxwell
... about them.

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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

— Oscar Wilde (The Critic as Artist)

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fascinating couplet!
apathist

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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today." (William Glasser)