Still Even More Quotes and Insights from James
James D. Milton
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz
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"What we have here is a failure to assimilate." -- Cool Hand Locutus
<The meaning of the above quote will be totally obscure -- unless you are
a fan of both Paul Newman and STNG. If you aren't -- just forget it.>
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"I drank what?" -- Socrates
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"One act of kindness can change the world." -- Author Unknown
<One such act 20 centuries ago comes readily to my mind.>
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"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." -- Author
Unknown
<What if you tend to believe everyone and everything?>
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"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the
richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
-- Robert Orben
<I would be willing to bet that most of the 500 richest still work.>
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"Some people come into our lives and quickly go;
Others leave footprints on our heart
and we are never ever the same."
-- Author Unknown
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Grandma Moses defined a primitive artist as "an amateur whose work
sells." Having lived all her life on farms in upstate New York, she
specialized in painting country scenes from her childhood. She said: "A
strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward;
one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our
brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the
day." Her thoughts on her life? "I have written my life in small
sketches, a little today, a little yesterday ... I look back on my life
as a good day's work; it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made
the best out of what life offered."
-- Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses (1860-1961), the "primitive"
painter who began her great career as an artist at the age of 75, when
arthritis made it difficult for her to sew.
<IMO it is best not to wait until 75 to do something worthwhile. Start
Today. You never know what Tomorrow may bring.>
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist
only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out
of the public treasury." -- Alexander Tytler
<No comment necessary.>
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"I come from a culture where you're valued not so much by what you
acquire but by what you give away." -- Larry Wall
<"It is better to give than to receive." -- Jesus the Christ>
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"The most incomprehensible mystery of the world is the fact that it is
comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein
<Easy for him to say -- I'm still working on it!>
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"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives." -- Charles Fisher
<By that measure I never wake up.>
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"A mind is like a parachute -- they only work when open." -- Author
Unknown
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"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." -- Linus
Pauling
<I think that I have used this quote before. But I thought it was a good
idea to repeat it.>
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"Advice is free. Just ask ... anything more, costs." -- Author Unknown
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"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
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Midway on our life's journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost. To tell
About those woods is hard -- so tangled and rough
And savage that thinking of it now, I feel
The old fear stirring: death is hardly more bitter.
And yet, to treat the good I found there as well
I'll tell what I saw, though how I came to enter
I cannot well say, being so full of sleep
Whatever moment it was I began to blunder
Off the true path. But when I came to stop
Below a hill that marked one end of the valley
That had pierced my heart with terror, I looked up
Toward the crest and saw its shoulders already
Mantled in rays of that bright planet that shows
The road to everyone, whatever our journey.
<Excerpted from "The Inferno Of Dante," a new translation by Robert
Pinksy, Farrar Straus & Giroux>
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"I'm hooked on placebos myself. I tried to quit, but then decided it
just didn't matter." -- Author Unknown
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"You can't expect to scramble brains and have anything left but scrambled
brains." -- Anonymous Psychiatrist speaking about ECT
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"Here is a test to find out whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach author of "Illusions: Diary
of a Reluctant Messiah"
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"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?"
-- Harry Truman
<Sometimes a person just has to do what he/she feels is right -- instead
of what seems to be the more popular course of action.>
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"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous."
-- Robert Benchley
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Have a Great Day!
James
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