"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
To All My Left-wing and Liberal Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the summer/winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make Canada and the United States great nations. Not to imply that these two countries are necessarily greater than any other country in the world. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
To My Right-wing Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.
Octavio Paz
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann von Goethe
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
Jeffery J. Mayer
There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...
Charles Fillmore
Happy New Year 2012
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Lady Stella Reading
Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
Proverb
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Sir Walter Besant
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Appius Claudius Caecus
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
Chinese Proverb
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Mark Twain
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann von Goethe
This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
P. D. Armour
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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