“…wondrous days, surprising days” #45
December 17th, 2007 by mpottleThe present contains all there is. It is holy ground.
-Alfred North Whitehead
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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #4
December 19th, 2007 by mpottleThose who love the young best stay young the longest.
-Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #6
December 7th, 2007 by mpottleTo 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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“How do you make a life?…” #9
December 8th, 2007 by mpottleI got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
-D. H. Lawrence
An hour’s industry will do more to produce cheerfulness… than a month’s moaning.
-Benjamin Franklin
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #42
December 12th, 2007 by mpottleGames provide rules and create a reassuring artificial order. If nobody can quite figure out how to keep score in real life, everyone knows how to do it in games.
-Marilyn Gardner
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #39
December 17th, 2007 by mpottleLook to this day! For it is life, the very life of life.
-attributed to Kalidasa, Hindu poet
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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #7
December 7th, 2007 by mpottleThe measure of a [person's] real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-Macauley
Cynics have said that what passes for morality in most people is really coeardice-the fear of getting caught. Do you think this is a fair estimation of the average person? Support your answer.
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Trees and Flowing Water #7
December 9th, 2007 by mpottleIt is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural and uncultivated state, was… to be the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
-Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #7
December 13th, 2007 by mpottleAnyone who is any good is different from anyone else.
-Felix Frankfurter
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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #4
December 8th, 2007 by mpottleAsk yourself what your predominant fault is: you have discovered, in a misguided but clearly identified state, your greatest resource.
-Antonin G. Sertillanges
Try it! Looking at something from a different perpective can be very revealing.
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