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STATUS QUOtes — 20160529

Jeff

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” — George McGovern

“Fantasy is the heart of real estate.” — Allison Glock

“Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.” — Sir Francis Bacon

“The good news is every day is an opportunity to go back to the drawing board.” — Angela Porisky-Khan

“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160528

Jeff

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal

“If you just communicate, you can get by, but if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.” — Jim Rohn

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” — Aldous Huxley

“The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.” — Franklin P. Jones

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160527

Jeff

“Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world: for everyone thinks himself so well endowed with it that even those who are the hardest to please in everything else do not usually desire more of it than they possess.” — Rene Descartes

“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.” — Robert Kiyosaki

“I am still learning to love the parts of myself that no one claps for.” — Rudy Francisco

“How long a minute is, depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160526

Jeff

“A good rest is half the work.” — Yugoslav Proverb

“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.” — Winston Churchill

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160525

Jeff

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Miguel de Cervantes

“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is a secret in the Oxford sense; you may tell it to only one person at a time.” — Oliver Franks, English civil servant & philosopher

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160524

Jeff

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” — Margaret Fuller

“When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Present what you do to the best of your ability and then walk away. Everything else is out of your control.” — Bryan Cranston

“That hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will look ridiculous year after year. [ed]” — Fred Allen

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160523

Jeff

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” — Confucius

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.” — Saskya Pandita

“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” — Robert Brault

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.” — Oliver Herford

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160522

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“Remember tonight for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens

“Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.” — J. Paul Getty

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160521

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“You’re either at the table or on the menu.” — Al Capone

“I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.[ed]” — Andrea Gibson

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” — Andre Agassi

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” — Jean Kerr

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160520

Jeff

“The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking.” — A proverb from India

“Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.” — Will Rogers

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.” — Patanjali

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

 

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