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173092	2003-09-04 22:37:00	Well I thought I HAD to share these with you - also from the LangaList - Just For Grins Cheers, Babe :-) "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But, this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp- posts ... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder	Babe Ruth (416)
173093	2003-09-05 00:56:00	very good heres some more . :) We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it. -Harvey B. Mackay, Entrepreneur and Author If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. -Win Borden, President of Minnesota Assoc. of Commerce and Industry Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. - Satchell Page, baseball pitcher No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~Soren Kierkegaard An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ~Henry L. Mencken Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~Will Durant Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~James Douglas The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ~H.G. Wells Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678 Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~Author Unknown Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. ~G. Behn Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. ~Josiah Royce It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. ~Luther Burbank We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925 Few people think no more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508 The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. ~William Lyon Phelps No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. ~Henry Van Dyke Tell your friends not to think aloud Until they swallow. ~Nickelback, "Leader of Men," The State A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~Victor Hugo Sometimes I think and other times I am. ~Paul Valéry, Variété: Cantiques spirituels, 1924 Few minds wear out; more rust out. ~Christian N. Bovee Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~John Erskine Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end. ~Kent Ruth Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. ~Confucius, Analects Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking. ~Steve Allen What luck for rulers, that men do not think. ~Adolph Hitler Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell [Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~William James For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ~Luther Burbank How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~Niels Bohr You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ~William Drummond, Academical Questions	johnboy (217)
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