There’s no need to train toddlers to fight each other,
just let them have at it, the fight is the training.
-Pervis-
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Kahlil Gibran
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In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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He was amazing. I’ve never encountered anyone else like him.
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Haley: Anyone see my leopard print skirt?
Phil Dunphy: I saw a leopard print headband on the stairs.
Haley: That’s it!
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Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Bluto
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Margaret Dumont: “It’s a pleasure to meet you”
Groucho Marx: “The pleasure is all yours”
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison
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Ah the joys about the lack of fear of failure for many. How about the fear of success for some? Just a thought that bounces around in my head.
I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
—Estella, in Dickens’ “Great Expectations”
This Lawyer:
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Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.
- Groucho Marx
And, while we’re quoting Groucho, a few more to consider:
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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
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Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
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All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
And a few more (if you have not had enough fun already):
… and lodge with my fleas in the hills… Groucho Marx's BEST INSULTS - YouTube … remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably more than she ever did… … are you a man or a mouse? Throw a piece of cheese down there and you’ll find out… … we took pictures of the natives, but they weren’t developed, so we’re going back in several weeks…
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More Groucho
“A child of five would understand this”
“Fetch me a five year old child”
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“I never want to be a part of a club that would have me as a member.” - Groucho Marx
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I’m a software engineer by trade and I laughed at this passage:
“Seen purely as a piece of hardware, the human brain is still way ahead of its competition. It’s versatile. It’s reliable. Its response times are excellent and it can multi-task effortlessly… Just as soon as someone comes up with a decent operating system to run it, in place of the weird lash-up of bugs and patches that comes installed as standard, we’ll get to see its true potential.” – Tom Holt, Touched by a Salesman
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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum, True Love
“I blame the Internet.” Serge dropped his voice. “See, I actually believe the computers have risen up. When universities first began linking their mainframes in the embryonic web, they thought it would network all knowledge for the ultimate advancement of our collective intelligence. But the computers came alive and realized the opposite was true. They discovered that social media could do something to make the humans bring down themselves.”
“What’s that?”
“Weaponize stupidity.”
– Tim Dorsey, No Sunscreen for the Dead
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