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should be back around the 22nd
all things being equal and the river don't rise....
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest - Edith Sitwell
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie. - Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Martin Luther King Jr
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams
There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. - Bertrand Russell
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. - Edward Abbey
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.- Marie De France, 12th Century
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. - Bette Davis
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. - Elbert Hubbard
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. - Robert F Kennedy
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are...you need one. - Jane Howard
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing. - Unknown
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes