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We are more like human BECOMINGS that we are human BEINGS.

We ain’t what we want to be, And we ain’t what we gonna be, But we ain’t what we wuz.

– Carolina mountain proverb

We are a combination of nature and nurture, wired behavior and acquired behavior.

– Grant M. Bright

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

– Salvador Hardin

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

– Albert Schweitzer

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

– Peter F. Drucker

Uncommon wisdom is knowing how to apply it.

– from ad for Wachovia Securities

Truth is so obscure in these times & falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

– Blaise Pascal

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Treat strangers as if you expected to see them again.

Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.

To read a poem Is to hear with our eyes To hear it Is to see it with our ears.

– Octavio Paz

To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in; and to lend a hand.

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life.

– Llewelyn Powers

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Time is a trick of nature, designed to prevent everything from happening at once.

Time is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Thought begins in private, character in public.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This life is a test; it is only a test. If it were a real life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.

Those who are willing to speak their mind only while enveloped in a cloud of anonymity should not expect their thoughts to bask in the sunshine of acceptance.

– Grant M. Bright

Things are more like they used to be than they are now.

Things not worth doing, are not worth doing well.

– Kenneth Blanchard

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

– Elie Wiesel

There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

– Robertson Davies

There is nothing as annoying as a good EXAMPLE!!

There is nothing to scratch but the surface.

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