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Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. ~Shigeo Shingo



Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman



We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ~Duc de La Rochefoucauld



I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau



Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn



Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. ~Marie Ray



The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman



I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. ~Allan Wells, referring to Carl Lewis, 1989



If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889



Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy



By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath Tagore



When you're wearing a green tuxedo, you dance where they tell you. ~Colonel Potter, "Too Many Cooks," original airdate 17 September 1979, written by Dennis Koenig, directed by Charles S. Dubin



The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown



The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings



Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. ~Colonel Potter, "The Price of Tomato Juice," original airdate 16 December 1975, written by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, directed by Gene Reynolds



Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814



Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce



The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery