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STATUS QUOtes — 20160519

Jeff

“When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, ‘At least the handle is one of us.'” — Turkish Proverb

“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” — Malcolm X

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160518

Jeff

“After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.” — Italian Proverb

“Son, your ego’s writing checks your body can’t cash.” — From the movie Top Gun

“It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!” — Elizabeth Gilbert

“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” — Addison H. Hallock

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160517

Jeff

“A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.” — Danish Proverb

“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.” — Heidi R. Kling

“Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.” — Boileau

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160508 (Delayed)

Jeff

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo

“Comedy is tragedy plus time!” — Alan Alda

“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” — Gene Fowler

“Please don’t ask me what the score is, I’m not even sure what the game is.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160516

Jeff

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.” — Matthew Arnold

“I would break my back for the ones I love, but how many would push the wheelchair for me after?” — Unknown

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“They were the kind of people who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. [ed]” — Mae West

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160515

Jeff

“Actions are destiny’s pen.” — Grenville Kleiser, Dictionary of Proverbs

“For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.” — Bruce Burton

“I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.” — Jonathan Swift

“A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to know everything I do.” — Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160514

Jeff

“A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.” — Chinese Proverb

“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [ed]” — Ayn Rand

“If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” — Kahlil Gibran

“I’m not overweight, I’m just easy to see.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160513

Jeff

“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” — Indian Proverb

“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.” — L. M. Montgomery

“Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.” — Lady Gaga

“I think, therefore I am. I think.” — George Carlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160512

Jeff

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” — Tibetan Proverb

“Every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things.” — Jim Valvano

“The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.” — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

“Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you; tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160511

Jeff

“The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.” — Abigail Van Buren

“It is true that scars remind us where we’ve been, but they don’t indicate where we are going.” — David Rossi

“No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.” — Clifford Bax

“I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.” — Walt Kelly, creator of the cartoon Pogo

 

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