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Abecrombie

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The Gift of Wonder

"The most beautiful experience

we can have is the mysterious.

It is the fundamental emotion

which stands the cradle

of true art and true science.

Whoever does not know it

and can no longer wonder,

no longer marvel,

is as good as dead,

and his eyes are dimmed."

Albert Einstein

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

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A Few Tiny Adjustments

It may be that a few tiny adjustments

if we knew how to make them would

open up the potentialities of genius

for every child

David Dietz

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"The only thing worse than being alone

is wishing you were"

Me

(1949-2009)... so far...... :huh:

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I believe that true friends are quiet angels

who sit on our shoulders and lift our wings

when we forget how to fly.

(Author Unknown)

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"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to share it with."

Mark Twain

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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa

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If you don't get out of the box you were raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

- Angelina Jolie

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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. .}Helen Keller{

Pavot B)

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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

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What lies behind us and what lies before us, are but tiny matter compared to what lies within us. { Ralph Waldo Emerson}

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“Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.”

“It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect.”

--- Joss Whedon.

"Because, sometimes... Mostly, it's funny to be a jerk."

Myself =D

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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

Les Brown

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The Most Reliable Sources

In sensing, the person will meet consciously

for the first time the creative, self directive

powers of his own nature, finding

that he can orient himself where he formaly

used to seek advice and that his most reliable

sources of information and guidance

lie within himself.

Charlotte Selver

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Joan Jett: I don’t (Consider Tattoos to be sinful), but it’s so subjective, what’s sinful to one person is honorable to another. If you listen to the various Religions of the World, to be human is to be a sinner. So if you embrace being a human being, you’re a sinner. And I embrace that fully!

Pavot B)

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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.,"

- Dr Seuss

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"What would men be without women?

Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."

Mark Twain

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Asimov, Isaac

(1920-1992) b. Petrovichi, Russia.

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

Pavot B)

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Too See the Sunrise Together

Very often, I met Einstien at the exit from the Patent Office;

sometimes we would take up the discussion we left off the night before

and sometimes we confided to others our hopes and fears.

Our material situation was far from being brilliant;

but, in spite of that, what enthusiasm we had, what fire, what passion for the things

that realy mattered ! We also made a number of excursions together - walking

, sometimes climbing to the top of the Gurten Kulm on Saturday to see

the sunrise. The scent of the pines, warmed by the sun during

the day, used literally to intoxicate me.

Maurice Solovine

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"Dance like no one is watching.

Sing like no one is listening.

Love like you've never been hurt

and live like it's heaven on Earth."

— Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel, Langhorne)

(1835-1910) b. Florida, Missouri

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.

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God’s Garden

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,--

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

by Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858-1932)

This is actually part of a poem.....but I happen to like it.

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