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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

just caught my attention--- other favorite quotes??
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There's not a kid in the world that's cute after eight o'clock at night. Old Woman In SHOE.
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One of the best things about living on earth is that you get a free trip around the sun every year.
Maybe this should be in the Travel Forum?
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I swear Judy, I could just hug you! Love that quote.

My favorite has always been, "God may not be there when you want Him to be, but He's always on time."



***Gracie, so true!
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Mark Twain said (not exact words): 'I left home at 18 because my father was so ignorant that I couldn't live with him. When I returned 2 years later, it amazed me how much he had learned during those 2 years....'
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Read this when I was very young and one I will never forget Touch with your eyes but don't see with your hands
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"By expanding our knowledge of the world, we expand our knowledge of ourselves"........Monet
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

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Have no idea who said it, but it does such an excellent job of summing up things:

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein
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"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

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"To thine own self be true".


William Shakespeare
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Old proverb.....

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts
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"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhaur (Schopenhaur was a German philosopher who died in 1860.)
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