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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men ( Read more... )

  
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.

1. I am 5'7'' - without shoes
2. I prefer movies that are musicals or comedies.  I don't like horror or violent movies. 
3. I hate sand between my toes
4. My ( Read more... )

If the family were a fruit,
it would be an orange,
a circle of sections,
held together
but separable,
each segment distinct.
~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you,
as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu

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When you look at your life,
the greatest happinesses
are family ( Read more... )

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. 
~Anonymous

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. 
~Anonymous

When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you. 
~Anonymous

A closed mouth gathers no feet. 
~Anonymous

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-~ Helen Keller

 You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
~Abraham Lincoln

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. 
~Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. 
~Abraham ( Read more... )

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, ( Read more... )

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 
Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
~W.C. Fields

I sometimes look at a group of friends and yearn for their opulent status in life and for the things they possess. Things like a fancy car, a bigger house, extravagant vacations or special electronic gadgets ( Read more... )