Tue, 02 Nov 2010
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Aspire to inspire before you expire.
Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.
The irony of life is that, when you’re old enough to know your way
around, you are not going anywhere.
original source unknown
published in The Sandtarian (newsletter of the Rotary Club of Sandton)
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Tue, 02 Nov 2010
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One book of quotations includes four citations from the speech
(Kennedy's inaugural address), which, as well as its exhortation to
Americans to serve their country, also issued a clarion call to the wider
world: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of
liberty."
said by John F. Kennedy
written by Theodore C. Sorensen
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Tue, 02 Nov 2010
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“the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans” and
challenging citizens: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what
you can do for your country.”
said by John F. Kennedy
written by Theodore C. Sorensen
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Wed, 06 Oct 2010
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
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Wed, 06 Oct 2010
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
Mark Twain
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Wed, 06 Oct 2010
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower
is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
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Wednesday, 06 Oct 2010
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"The offspring of riches," he wrote, "is pride, vanity, ostentation,
arrogance, tyranny."
But he also wrote: "The offspring of poverty: greed, sordidness, envy,
hate, malice, cruelty, meanness, lying, shirking, cheating, stealing,
murder."
Mark Twain
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Monday, 13th September,
2010
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The world is not in want of good ideas but of people who can express
them.
Father James Keller (also found in shoe box of late wife)
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Monday, 13th September,
2010
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To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or
less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of
words.
C.C.Lewis (found in shoe box of late wife)
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Wednesday, 8th September,
2010
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Take the success for granted and become arrogant and unteachable.
from a web page by Pastor Francois Louw
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Wednesday, 8th September,
2010
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Life's greatest tragedy is not to fall down, it's to stay down. The greatest
disaster in life is not to fail, it's to park there, and say 'What's the use?'
from a web page by Pastor Francois Louw
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Monday, 6th September, 2010
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"The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell
just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time
you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock
may soon be still."
contributed (not written) by Rosemary Kirchmann
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Monday, 30th August,2010
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You got to sorter give and take in this old world. We can get mighty rich,
but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.
June 1, 1930 - Will Rogers
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Sunday, 29th August, 2010
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
- Bernard Baruch
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Friday, 27th August, 2010
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A debt is just as hard for a government to pay as it is for an individual. No
debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that is
handy all the time.
March 1, 1931 - Will Rogers
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Thursday, 26th August, 2010
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"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing
that assures the successful outcome of any venture."
- William James
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Thursday, 26th August, 2010
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"Few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking
application."
- Calvin Coolidge
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Thursday, 26th August, 2010
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"Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it."
- Gracian
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