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“Ideas won’t keep…” #13

In real life, it only takes one to make a quarrel.
-Ogden Nash

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #50

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
-Murphy’s Law, Book Two

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #34

If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #69

The maxim “nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
-Sir Winston Churchill

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On the Viewing the World #5

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-Helen Keller

What do you know about Helen Keller? What were her her sources of strength and joy? How was it that she could be such an optimist while so many other people seem to focus on “shadow”?

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“How do you make a life?…” #10

Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-David Lloyd George
You have to be careful about being too careful.
-Beryl Pfizer

Crossing a chasm in life might be making a commitment to marry or have a child, borrowing enough money to do something right, starting a business, [...]

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #70

In the eyes of its mother, every beetle is a gazelle.
-Moroccan proverb

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gray: On Viewing the World #2

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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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #27

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
-John Fowles

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #37

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
-Racheal Carson

A new school. A new friend. A new home. A new stepparent or family. Any new start can be difficult. It’s a CHANGE, and change makes everything uncertain for a while. It gets easier as you keep going, though, and the new thing becomes more familiar.
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