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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 18, 2009 at 5:53am

"We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry."

~John Webster (1580-1632) English writer, December 18

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 21, 2009 at 9:01am

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been."
~ John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) American Poet, December 17

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 25, 2009 at 7:47am

"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
~ Humphrey DeForest Bogart (1899-1957) American film actor

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 27, 2009 at 5:30pm

"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. "
~Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French Chemist

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 28, 2009 at 9:30am

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

~James Thurber (1894–1961) US humorist

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 29, 2009 at 9:25pm

"I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace."

~Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) 17th President of the United States

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 30, 2009 at 4:22pm

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

~ Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British Author

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on December 31, 2009 at 7:03am

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

~ Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French Artist

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on January 3, 2010 at 4:51pm

"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning."

~ Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) American author, scientist

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on January 8, 2010 at 2:31am

"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

~ Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet and biographer

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on January 14, 2010 at 12:30am

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

~ Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Alsatian Medical

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Permalink Reply by MYSTICMOONS on January 16, 2010 at 9:50pm

"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter."

~Susan Sontag (1933-2004) US writer and critic

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