Today's Quote

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Life is like a coin. You can spend it any
way you wish, but you only spend it once.

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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
- Groucho Marx

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Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
- William Cullen Bryant
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face.
- John Donne
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
- E. E. Cummins
October is a symphony of permanence and change.
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
- Edwin Way Teale
In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley
Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.
- Takayuki Ikkaku
I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
- Sue Grafton

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Classic Quotes by Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) Hungarian writer

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surelymeant us to stick it out.

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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

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Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best

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It takes strength to stand alone.
It takes courage to lean on others.

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Classic Quotes by Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) US businessman

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

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He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

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I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

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I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

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If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

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Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

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We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins (1936 - )

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Originally Posted by sunburstlespaulhero1989

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins (1936 - )

Thanks Sunburst!