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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #87

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
-Benjamin  Disraeli

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #60

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

Be of good courage, all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #9

December 19th, 2007 by mpottle

Minor amusements keep us from bogging down. They remind us that every previous crisis or recession eventually ended.
-Richard J. Cattani

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On Viewing the World #2

December 8th, 2007 by mpottle

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have curiosity to know why this is so: but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain and hunger, and mosquitos, and silly people.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You and Other Human Souls #4

December 8th, 2007 by mpottle

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him [or her] down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise thought.
-Marion Anderson

Like carrying a grudge or hating someone, keeping another person down does you harm, too-sometimes more harm than you are doing [...]

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Trees and Flowing Water #3

December 9th, 2007 by mpottle

The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.
-Isak Dineson

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #71

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

You done splendid.
-Casey Stengal

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #72

December 10th, 2007 by mpottle

To recieve a present handsomely, and in the right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
-Leigh Hunt

Most of us know how to give. We are raised on sating like “It is better to give than to receive.”
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #20

December 17th, 2007 by mpottle

If you love me, tell me so. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
-Helen Hunt Jackson

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #16

December 13th, 2007 by mpottle

Schools should be the happiest place in society. And I’ll bet many are.
-Richard J. Cattani

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