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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. ~ Jesus Matthew 10:16

LIFE QUOTES I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~ E. B. White A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ~ Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~ Henry Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~ Charles M. Schulz Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach

MEETING QUOTES - APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE “Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith “Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” ~ Dave Barry “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” ~ Thomas Sowell “A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)” ~ Dale Dauten “A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.” ~ James T. Kirk

PREDICTION QUOTES DEDICATED TO ALL THE DINAR NAY-SAYERS THAT HAVE SAID THE DINAR RV IS BOGUS "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873 "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck...I have no time for such nonsense." -- Napoleon, commenting on Fulton's Steamship "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre "I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years . . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions." -- Wilbur Wright, 1908 "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT FOR EVERY IDEA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, THERE WERE ALWAYS PEOPLE THAT VOICED THEIR DISBELIEF. IT CHANGED NOTHING ASIDE FROM THEIR EGO ONCE THEY WERE PROVEN WRONG

DREAM QUOTES Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm (Thanks, Sarah) Dreams are nature's answering service - don't forget to pick up your messages once in a while. ~Sarah Crestinn Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The Talmud Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman

LETTERS TO SANTA Santa I think you're the best person in the whole wide world and I love you so much. I'm glad thet you and Jesus get along so well. - Cody, 7, Evans, Georgia. Can I have an offical certificate saying that I been good this year? - Calvin, 6, Basle, Switzerland. I love you very much. Please use the front door, we do not have a chimmney. Don't forget my Daddy gave you a magic key when I was born. - Thomas, 5, Staten Island, New York. Please make it snow this year so i can make a snowman and have snowball fights with my dad. Also take some of my toys and give them to the children who don't have a mum and dad like i have. - Kyle, 8, Ossett, United Kingdom. Santa, i am gonna give all my monie to my auntie because she is pur. - Galen, 6, Charleston, West Virginia.

BIRTHDAY QUOTES If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself. - Ubie Blake We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. - Mark Twain I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. - Phyllis Diller Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. - John P. Grier

CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD - Some of you may have seen this in an email - CLICK ON THE PIC TO ENLARGE

So many people and so much "Intel" floating around. How about some quotes on "INTELLIGENCE" Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential” ~ Winston Churchill “It is wiser to find out than to suppose” ~ Mark Twain "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.” ~ Bertolt Brecht “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” ~ Rene Descartes “Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used” ~ Dr. Carl Sagan “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” ~ Galileo Galilei “For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.” ~ Lao Tzu “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason” ~ Marya Mannes Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

QUOTES BY CHILDREN ON LOVE AND MARRIAGE Q = What's the best age for marriage? A = "Eighty-four, because at that age, you don't have to work anymore, and you can spend all your time loving each other in your bedroom." (Judy, 8) •"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." (Tom, 5) •"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10) •"It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them." (Lynette, 9) •"No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular." (Jan, 9) •"I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful." (Harlen, 8) •"If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." (Leo, 7) •"It isn't always just how you look. Look at me, I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." (Gary, 7) •"Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." (Christine, 9) •"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I have been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." (Bobby, 8) "One of you should know how to write a check. Because even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." (Ava, 8) •"One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually work for me." (Bart, 9) •"It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like how their hearts are on fire." (Christine, 9) •"The person is thinking, Yeah, I really do love him. But I hope he showers at least once a day." (Michelle, 9) •"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." (Randy, 8)

MARRIAGE QUOTES - DEDICATED TO COUPLES THAT ARE ALREADY STRESSED DUE TO THE TIME OF YEAR, AND MAY BE ADDITIONALLY STRESSED DUE TO WAITING FOR OUR RV TO HAPPEN EVERY SUNDAY FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ~Heinrich Heine Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret The highest happiness on earth is marriage. ~William Lyon Phelps I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ~Lyndon B. Johnson One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens [W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. ~Josh Billings One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman Have you flirted with your spouse today? ~ Renee Lear

FAMILY QUOTES A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. -- George Moore Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. -- Evan Esar Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.-- Anthony Brandt The family is one of nature's masterpieces. -- George Santayana The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. -- Dodie Smith The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.-- Lee Iacocca Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. -- Author Unknown

BE IT FORTUNATE OR UNFORTUNATE, ITS A HOLIDAY THIS ENTIRE MONTH SO .......... "Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year." ~ Victor Borge "I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark." ~ **** Gregory "Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit." ~ Unknown "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying: 'Toys not included.'" ~ Bernard Manning

CHRISTMAS QUOTES The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. ~ Joan River I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ~ Shirley Temple What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~ Phyllis Diller The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~ Jay Leno

INVESTMENT QUOTES It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. ~ George Soros When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ Oscar Wilde Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. ~ Warren Buffett If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~ George Bernard Shaw Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. ~ Warren Buffett