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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
-Barbara Jordan
{U.S. Congresswoman from TX; b. 1936, d. 1996}

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On weather: "People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what."
-Katharine Whitehorn
{British journalist, writer, columnist; b. 1928}

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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
-Mary Jean Iron

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"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
-Warren Buffett

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"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement-and we will make the goal."
-Jerome Fleishman

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
-Frank Zappa

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"Promise me that you will always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
-Christopher Robin

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy

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"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
-Carl Sandburg

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"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe."
-Henry Anatole Grunwald

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Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
“even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.”
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
-Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward, by Gwendolyn Brooks

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"Be regular and ordinary in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-Gustave Flaubert