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GabhSigenod
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:11:08 AM

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As we all know, "A stitch in time saves nine".
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- Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, 1732:

Off to Singapore for a spell!
NancyLee
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:58:00 PM

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Location: United States, NV
Who had deceived thee as often as thyself. B. Franklin

Learning is its own reward, and it's fun too!
MamaCat
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:43:51 PM

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Joined: 11/6/2011
Posts: 33
Points: 99
Location: United States
"Well, that's just ducky!"
my mother

We are not lost!
We are just not where we planned to be.
RubyMoon
Posted: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:38:09 AM
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Location: United States
Carrots are devine... You get a dozen for a dime, It's maaaa-gic! - Bugs Bunny
leonAzul
Posted: Friday, November 11, 2011 4:42:32 PM

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Location: United States, FL
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

-Willie Wonka- (Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige
tootsie
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:02:08 AM

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Location: United Kingdom


Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma




I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
IdaGama
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:09:40 AM

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Joined: 10/17/2010
Posts: 399
Points: 1,127
Location: United States
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." -

Roland Barthes 1915-80


Hope -- and Cope.
GabhSigenod
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:34:34 AM

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Location: Gaeltacht, Ireland
"Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
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-Steve Jobs


Off to Singapore for a spell!
MamaCat
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:51:39 PM

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Location: United States
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Stanislaw Lec

We are not lost!
We are just not where we planned to be.
tootsie
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 2:06:43 AM

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

- Barbara de Angelis



I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
MamaCat
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:57:22 PM

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Points: 99
Location: United States
"If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there."
George Harrison

We are not lost!
We are just not where we planned to be.
IMcRout
Posted: Monday, November 14, 2011 5:51:59 PM

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Joined: 5/27/2011
Posts: 5,234
Points: 15,466
Location: Germany
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. - Woody Allen

"Before I speak, I have something important to say."Groucho Marx
GabhSigenod
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:46:12 AM

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"to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!" ---Ahab

Off to Singapore for a spell!
tootsie
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:53:38 AM

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Location: United Kingdom


We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine - Pierce Brosnan



I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
GabhSigenod
Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2011 9:44:38 AM

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Location: Gaeltacht, Ireland
"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way;
but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Off to Singapore for a spell!
Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:24:11 AM

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Joined: 9/21/2009
Posts: 19,780
Points: 59,346
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut



I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
tootsie
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:31:02 AM

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When life hands you a lemon, bust out the Tequila and salt



I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
RubyMoon
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:58:14 AM
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Location: United States
...And don't forget to jazz up your Bloody Mary with a sexy cellery-et stalk.
Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:08:28 AM

Rank: Advanced Member

Joined: 9/21/2009
Posts: 19,780
Points: 59,346
Location: Helsinki, Finland



I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
RubyMoon
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:23:15 AM
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Location: United States
tootsie-- I hope you realize I was playing along with you in friend-ship.

JJ-- How charming and dignified.

(I guess you're up tootsie... or whoever can find a "fitting" quote.)
tootsie
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:40:10 AM

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Location: United Kingdom
of course I do RubyMoon, it made me giggle when I saw yours and JJ's posts........(ouch JJ !!!)




Cheers !!

I live in my own little world, but it's OK - they know me here...
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