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STATUS QUOtes — 20160628

Jeff

“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.” — Lao Tzu

“Hobbies are neither inconsequential or trivial—they’re an opportunity for us to shed the pretense of what we do for what we really are.” — Alex Preston

“Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people to do the same.” — Gloria Steinem

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.” — Slappy White

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160627

Jeff

“At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark.” — Japanese Proverb

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” — Pearl S. Buck

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard

“The older you get, the better you realize you were.” — George Carlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160626

Jeff

“Find the one who hears your music the same as you do.” — Topher Kearby

“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” — Pablo Picasso

“The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to beat in the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged.” — Ovid

“It’s not too far; it just seems like it is.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160625

Jeff

“Be somebody nobody thought you could be.” — William Chapman

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” — David Allen

“The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.” — Ryan Holiday

“In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.” — Jerry Sloan, American basketball player & coach

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160624

Jeff

“Money without brains is always dangerous.” — Napoleon Hill

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” — Robert Kennedy

“I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.” — Gordon Atkinson

“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” — Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones)

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160623

Jeff

“[in business] Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” — Peter Drucker

“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.” — Jacques Bossuet

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” — Billy Wilder

“As my mother used to say, ‘You’ll get unconditional love from me when you’ve earned it.'” — Drew Hastings

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160622

Jeff

“Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.” — African Proverb

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” — E. B. White

“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” — Hunter S. Thompson

“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” — G.K. Chesterton

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160621

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“A good home must be made, not bought.” — Joyce Maynard

“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.” — Michelangelo

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” — Patricia Briggs

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” — Lily Tomlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160620

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“When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.” — Czech Proverb

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.” — Wernher von Braun

“It’s impossible to make the eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.” — Roald Dahl

“Discretion is not the better part of biography.” — Lytton Strachey

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160619

Jeff

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” — Norman Cousins

“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” — Samuel Beckett

“Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder.” — Cheryl Strayed

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” — Mark Twain

 

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