A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness.  Bad manners.  Lack of consideration for others in minor matters.  A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. ~~ Robert A. Heinlein [Friday]

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Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. ~~ Thomas Fuller

 

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In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination. ~~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti

 

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One reason why the big apples are at the top of the basket is because a lot of little apples are keeping them up there. ~~ Joe Moore

 

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you.  Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ~~ Alice Walker

 

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Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for unchanging dreams. ~~ Roger Kahn

 

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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience … from generation to generation.  In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ~~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

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What dreadful hot weather we have!  It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~~ Jane Austen

 

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The prairies are all right.  The mountains are all right.  The forests and the deserts and the clear clean air of the heights, they're all right.  But what a bewitching thing is a city of the sea.  It was good to be in Seattle--the hear the foghorns on the Sound, and the deep bellow of departing steamers; to feel the creeping fog all around you, the fog that softens things and makes a velvet trance out of nighttime. ~~ Ernie Pyle

 

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Life is too short to bother with tasteless tomatoes. ~~ Cindy Pawlcyn

 

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It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. 

 

It's the dreamer that's afraid of waking that never takes a chance. 

 

It's the one that won't be taken that cannot seem to give. 

 

And it's the soul that's afraid of dying that never learns to live.

 

~~ Amanda McBroom [The Rose]

 

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My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis. ~~ Emeril Lagasse

 

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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. ~~ Morgan Freeman

 

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It's not true that nice guys finish last.  Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. ~~ Addison Walker

 

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We struggle to compose an itinerary, but life insists on remaining a mystery tour. ~~ Edna Franklin

 

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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count.  A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter.  A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ~~ Sydney J. Harris

 

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. ~~ Edgar Watson Howe

 

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I try to teach my heart to want nothing it can't have. ~~ Alice Walker

 

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Some mysteries are not worth solving, but I've never known in advance which ones they are. ~~ Edna Adair

 

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ~~ Kahlil Gibran

 

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Make no mistake:  the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~~ Robert M. Pyle

 

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We can never catch up with life… We shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too. ~~ M. P. Follett

 

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There is at least one good thing you can say about punctuality -- it is a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of complete privacy. ~~ O. A. Battista

 

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We have all got our "good old days" tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in dreams like cats to favorite armchairs. ~~ Brian Carter

 

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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces--just good food from fresh ingredients. ~~ Julia Child

 

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There are no answers, only cross references. ~~ Joe Moore

 

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Parents are like shuttles on a loom.  They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. ~~ Fred [Mr.] Rogers

 

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Life to me is like boardinghouse wallpaper.  It takes a long time to get used to it, but when you finally do, you never notice it's there.  And then you hear the decorators are arriving. ~~ Derek Marlowe

 

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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. ~~ David Riesman

 

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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~~ Maya Angelou

 

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The end of summer stares us in the face. ~~ Jeor Mormont [George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones]