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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #97

December 13th, 2007 by mpottle

Go ahead with your life, your plans, your preparation, as fully as you can. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
-Richard L. Evans

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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #6

December 7th, 2007 by mpottle

To a mouse, a cat is a lion.
-Albanian proverb
To an ant, a few drops of rain is a flood.
-Japanese proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #35

December 17th, 2007 by mpottle

Misfortune does not always come to injury.
-Italain proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #95

December 13th, 2007 by mpottle

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
-James Thurber

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #39

December 12th, 2007 by mpottle

If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith quoted by Fran Tarkenton

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #80

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

I still consider myself fairly young and the world around me is far different from the one I knew in high school or college. Electric typewriters and erasable paper represented the cutting edge of technology for me, and I’d never heard of Brie.
-Robert B. Lawton, S. J.

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #83

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-Booker T. Washington

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #78

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

Each of us is endowed with a level of intuition… “wisdom of the heart.”
-Daily Word

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #44

December 17th, 2007 by mpottle

Decisions of the head rather than the heart are the ones we most deeply regret.
-Patricia Weenolsen

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #24

December 17th, 2007 by mpottle

It is the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give.
-Agnes Repplier

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