Archive for August, 2008

Eleanor Roosevelt on Age

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Jim Bishop on Sports

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

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Randolph Bourne on Experience

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

- Randolph Bourne

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Bill Vaughn on Age

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

- Bill Vaughn

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Alan King on Marriage

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

- Alan King

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Richard Nelson Bolles on Business

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

- Richard Nelson Bolles

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George Thoma on Nature

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Grass grows by inches but it’s killed by feet.

- George Thoma

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Albert Schweitzer on Nature

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

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Will Durant on Knowledge & Learning

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Education is the transmission of civilization.

- Will Durant

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Confucius on Age

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

- Confucius

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