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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
- Natalie Clifford Barney 1876-1972, American-born French Author

I guess it’s time to drop the delusion that breastfeeding is helping me lose weight 10 months after the fact and that the magic of nursing isn’t negating my love affair with chocolate, wine and ice-cream.
- Andi from Poot and Cubby

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis 1859-1939, British Psychologist

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Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

– February 22, 1842 - Temperance Address of Springfield, Illinois

- Abraham Lincoln

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Peace

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Abraham Lincoln

Source: February 21, 1861 - Address to the New Jersey General Assembly

- Abraham Lincoln

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln

Source: December 3, 1861 - Lincoln’s First Annual Message to Congress

- Abraham Lincoln

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Sarah Marshall Quotes

Some funny quotes from Sarah Marshall ( Sally Marshall ) in the Chicago Tribune.

Maybe I should start a support group. After all, the Sarah Marshalls of the world have rights too. Not all of us suck.
- Sarah Marshall

And someone should have considered the feelings of those Sarah Marshalls who really do look fat in their jeans
- Sarah Marshall

I’ve always wanted my name in lights—even if it’s the name I’m only called by credit card customer-service reps.
- Sarah Marshall

… the thrill of seeing my name in lights is gone. Now, everywhere I go, I see signs that say things like “You suck Sarah Marshall,” “I’m so over you Sarah Marshall,” “You do look fat in those jeans Sarah Marshall” and

“My mom always hated you Sarah Marshall.”
- Sarah Marshall

Sally Marshall ( Sarah Marshall ) is a freelance writer living in Manhattan.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy
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The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs

There was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs.

He was hard of hearing so he had no radio.

He had trouble with his eyes so he read no newspapers.

But he sold good hot dogs.

He put up signs on the highway telling how good they were.

He stood on the side of the road and cried; “buy a hot dog, mister?

And people bought.

He increased his meat and bun orders.

He bought a bigger stove to take care of his trade.

He finally got his son home from college to help him out.

But then something happened.

His son said, “Father, haven’t you been listening to the radio?

Haven’t you been reading the newspapers?

There’s a big depression.

The European situation is terrible.

The domestic situation is worse.”

Where upon the father thought, “well, my son’s been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio, and he ought to know.”

So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders, took down his advertising signs, and no longer bothered to stand out on the highway to sell his hot dogs.

And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight.

“You’re right, son” the father said to the boy.

“We certainly are in the middle of a great depression.”

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One of the best and fastest ways of acquiring knowledge is to insist on remaining ignorant about things that aren’t worth knowing
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