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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #33

Be nice, feel guilty, and play safe. If there was ever a prescription for producing a dismal future, that has to be it.
-Walter B. Wriston

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #15

For maximum attention, it’s hard to beat a good, big mistake.
-David D. Hewitt
Write about a time you got maximum attention this way, or invent a story about how someone else did.

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #81

Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

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“How do you make a life?…” #2

Most of us are taught very young that we should try hard. We should be persisent and work very hard at whatever we undertake. But these quotations advocate a less strenous, less driving approach to live. How do you react to them? Which approach to living makes the most sense to you? Why?

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #98

The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity the one-dream man.
-Robert Goddard

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #39

Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life.
-attributed to Kalidasa, Hindu poet

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #47

Many things are lost for want of asking.
-English proverb

Some people won’t ask. They’d rather go without than take the chance of being told “no.” But if they had asked, the answer might have been a “yes.”
Sometimes the loss is simple, like a day off or a free pass. Other times, the loss can be [...]

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #56

It goes againest common sense to have so much stuff, have it for a second, then throw it away.
-Patricia Poore, editor and publisher of Garbage magazine
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.
-Anonymous

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #60

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

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #41

You never know what you can do without until you try.
-Franklin P. Adams

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