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I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln


Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. ~Terri Guillemets


Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. ~Doc Sane


Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh


He who does not economize will have to agonize. ~Confucius


Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935


No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli


We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive


There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson


After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown


The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie, http://antiekoekie.co.za


Improvement begins with I. ~Arnold Glasow


The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb


Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett


Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. ~Robert Lynd


I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard


The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. ~David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country


Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett