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Five fingers are brothers but not equals.

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:49:12 +0000

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.~ Petrarch
Five fingers are brothers but not equals. ~ Afghan Proverb
For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. ~ Billy Graham
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five. ~ Arabian Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens. ~ Iranian Proverb
If you have five wives, then you have five tongues. ~ African Proverb
I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late start without me. ~ Tallulah Bankhead
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. ~ Warren Buffett
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.~ Indian Proverb
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The best time to buy a home is always five years ago. ~ Ray Brown
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. ~ James Cash Penney
The formula ‘Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ~ E. M. Forster
There are five ways in which to become wise: be silent, listen, remember, grow older and study. ~ Arabian Proverb
There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ~ Leo Durocher
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. ~ Horatio Nelson
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

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Building Castles in the Air

Nabil Medawar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:35:36 +0000

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.~Jerome Lawrence
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. ~ William R. Alger
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. ~ Henrik Ibsen
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! ~ Edward George Earle
No tribute is laid on castles in the air. ~ Charles Churchill
There are mortgages on every castle in the air.~ Author Unknown
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.~ Johann Gottfried von Herder
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ~ Richard Whately
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.~ Sir John Vanbrugh
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father’s palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.~ Thomas Traherne

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An hour may destroy what an age was building.

Nabil Medawar — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:12:20 +0000

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. ~ Robert Menzies
A man’s wealth may be superior to him. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. ~ Edward F. Halifax
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it. ~ English Proverb
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. ~ William Arthur
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who asks no questions stays a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth. ~ Czech Proverb
It may be a fire today — tomorrow it will be ashes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Let a wrong-doing repeat itself at least three times: the first may be an accident, the second a mistake, but the third is likely to be intentional. ~ African Proverb
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, — but it returneth. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ~ Francis Bacon
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~ William Shakespeare
Man’s yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Much may be done by defying the ghosts of Despair and Dismay and much may be gained by relying On “Where there’s a Will There’s a Way.” ~ Eliza Cook
Never tell your friends what your enemy may not hear. ~ Arabian Proverb
No matter how big the sea may be, sometimes two ships meet. ~ Chinese Proverb
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ~ Channing Pollock
Only what you have eaten is yours; other things may not be. ~ African Proverb
People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want. ~ David Mamet
Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never. ~ Chinese Proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. ~ Chinese Proverb
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~ Ivy Baker Priest
To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I’ll find it. I may not have the time, but I’ll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I’ll be the most committed to your success. ~ Author Unknown
True feeling justifies, whatever it may cost. ~ May Sarton
Truth may walk through the world unarmed. ~ Bedouin Proverb
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. ~ Owen Meredith
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him. ~ Goethe
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney

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Shift Quotes

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:08:46 +0000

A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women’s brain does. ~ Barbara De Angelis
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. ~ Maurice Strong
ِِِِِِِِِِArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there’s a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It’s as simple as that. ~ Werner Herzog
As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. ~ Afghan Proverb
Fame is a fickle food – Upon a shifting plate. ~ Emily Dickinson
I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.~ George Eliot
If we are to lift ourselves out of this morass, we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial. ~ Author Unknown
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. ~ Christopher Meloni
It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. ~ Daniel Yergin
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers. ~ Andrew Gould
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. ~ Nathaniel Emmons
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. ~ Laurence Sterne
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology – although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. ~ Paul Hawken
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. ~ Ilka Chase
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ Tom Stoppard
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. ~ Zalmay Khalilzad
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education. ~ John W. Gardner
The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate. ~ Chinese Proverb
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. ~ Steven Levy
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.~ Washington Irving
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.~ John Deacon
Thus times do shift each thing his turn does hold; new things succeed, as former things grow old. ~ Robert Herrick
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ~ Lisa Alther
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.~ Marianne Williamson

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Once upon a time…

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:23:02 +0000

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.~ Mickey Rooney
Once upon a time only Washington’s face was on our money, now Washington’s hands are on it too. ~ Author Unknown
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again. ~ Johnny Mercer
Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When she smiled, I smiled. When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that ever happened to me that mattered, in some way had to do with her. That day Winnie and I promised each other that no matter what, that we’d always be together. It was a promise full of passion and truth and wisdom. It was the kind of promise that can only come from the hearts of the very young. ~ The Wonder Years
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life. ~ Tom Ford
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~ Ellen Goodman
Once upon a time, business solved its problems by raising prices. Now, they solve their problems by cutting costs and getting better productivity. It reflects that productivity but doesn’t force pricing, doesn’t constrict profit margins. It’s what an economy’s supposed to do. ~ Neal Soss quotes
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves. ~ Tamar Jacoby
Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam. ~ Stephane Simean
Once upon a time, we saw ourselves as gatekeepers … but you can’t do that now. You want to get people in the doors … you have to show your value. You can’t just sit back and say, ‘We have all the knowledge in the world, come here if you want.’ We have to do more than that. ~ Don Buckley
One hundred years ago, if someone said, ‘damn,’ people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it. ~ Paul Levinson
There was no “before” the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. ~ John D. Barrow
We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ~ Philip Pullman
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time… now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. ~ Carolyn Warner

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Nine-tenths of wisdom…

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:33:47 +0000

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C. S. Lewis
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way. ~ Tom Cruise
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time. ~ Andrew Marr
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ~ Anatole France
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ~ Mary Lyon
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ~ Horace Walpole
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Possession is nine tenths of the law. ~ Traditional Proverb
The nine-tenths prove man’s love, but the one-tenth tests man’s legal obedience. ~ Herschel Hobbs
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ~ Francis Marion Crawford

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An ounce of wisdom!

Nabil Medawar — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:34:48 +0000

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. ~ Italian Proverb
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~ Friedrich Engels
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~ Spanish Proverb
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~ Thomas Fuller
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning. ~ Traditional Proverb
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ~ Michael Korda
An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition. ~ Author Unknown
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. ~ Dutch Proverb
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ~ Mae West
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. ~ Traditional Proverb
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ~ English Proverb
An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions. ~ American Proverb
An ounce of wisdom outweighs a ton of knowledge. – Traditional Proverb
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ~ Yiddish Proverb
A pound a fret can’t pay an ounce a debt. ~ Jamaican Proverb
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. ~ John Wesley
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. ~ Charles Schumer
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love. ~ John Ray
One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~ Spanish Proverb

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Things worth doing!

Be determined to handle any challenge…

Nabil Medawar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:23:46 +0000

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ~ James Reston
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~ E. H. Gombrich
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ~ Pearl Strachan Hurd
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. ~ Mother Teresa
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. ~ Robert Collier
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ~ Norman Douglas
Learn to handle a writing-brush and you’ll never handle a begging-bowl. ~ Chinese Proverb
Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily. ~ Russian Proverb
One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can’t get help from your friends or family.You’re finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.~ Shirley Temple Black
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. ~ Brian Tracy
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. ~ Tommy Steele
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers. ~ Jamais Cascio
The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. ~ Connie Mack
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~ Author Unknown
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him. ~ Author Unknown
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ~ Toni Morrison
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ~ Donald Laird
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves. ~ Henry Ford
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. ~ Mitzi Chandler
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason. ~ Paul P. Parker

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Hope is the mother of Success!

Nabil Medawar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:52:29 +0000

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. ~ Romanian Proverb
Advertising is the mother of trade. ~ Japanese Proverb
Anger is the mother of treachery. ~ Welsh Proverb
Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury. ~ Russian Proverb
Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention. ~ Author Unknown
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. ~ Edmund Burke
Education is the mother of leadership. ~ Wendell L. Willkie
Experience is the mother of wisdom. ~ Traditional Proverb
Fear is the mother of morality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Haste is the mother of imperfection. ~ Brazilian Proverb
Haste is the mother of inaccuracy. ~ Native American Proverb
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ~ Samuel Smiles
Hypocrisy is the mother of peace. ~ Moorish Proverb
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ~ David Rockefeller
If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Ignorance is the mother of admiration. ~ George Chapman
Ingratitude is the mother of every vice. ~ French Proverb
Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance. ~ Traditional Proverb
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ~ Karl Kraus
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~ Thomas Hobbes
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ~ Aeschylus
Mistrust is the mother of certainty. ~ French Proverb
Necessity is the mother of attraction. ~ Luke McKissack
Necessity is the mother of invention. ~ English Proverb
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ~ Mark Twain
Night is the mother of advice. ~ Corsican Proverb
Night is the mother of counsels. ~ George Herbert
Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~ Bantu Proverb
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ~ Josh Billings
Repetition is the mother of knowledge. ~ African Proverb
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ Francesco Petrarch
Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. ~ George Gardner
Trust is the mother of exasperation. ~ French Proverb
Want is the mother of industry. ~ Traditional Proverb
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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A lot of people don’t know what they want!

Nabil Medawar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:57:39 +0000

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. ~ Steven Wright
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ~ Adrian Edmondson
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time. ~ Mariah Carey
A lot of people become saints because of their stomach. ~ Indian Proverb
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. ~ Les Brown
A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion. ~ Martin Yan
A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. ~ Marilyn Manson
A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. ~ Chuck Norris
A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going. ~ Author Unknown
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.~ Steve Prefontaine
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.~ Bill Walton
There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. ~ Lisa M. Amos
God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message. ~ Edmund W Littlefield
A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. ~ Joe Carter
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. ~ Robert Townsend
Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition. ~ Magic Johnson
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more. ~ Woody Hayes
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~ Bernard Baily
You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. ~ Barbara De Angelis

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