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Old 08-14-2011, 02:30 AM
 
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Old 08-14-2011, 07:07 AM
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beggars can't be choosers
An old saying:
If you give a beggar a horse, he'll ride it straight to hell.
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Old 08-14-2011, 07:11 AM
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often ~ Mark Twain
Don't even get me started on Twain. One of my favorites.

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Old 08-14-2011, 07:14 AM
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The Outer Banks
That reminds me of one of the best quotes of all time imo. From The Outermost House by Henry Beston:

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
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Old 08-14-2011, 11:46 AM
 
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Amen has always been a comforting word for me.
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Old 08-14-2011, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Indianapolis
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Abrahamn Lincoln- You can fool everyone once, you can fool some people all the time but you can not fool everyone all the time.
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Old 08-14-2011, 09:59 PM
 
Location: The Triangle
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Discretion is the better part of valor.
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Old 08-14-2011, 11:16 PM
 
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Excellent selections!

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She'll be apples
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Old 08-15-2011, 01:35 AM
 
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Sun Records
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Old 08-15-2011, 05:48 AM
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Discretion is the better part of valor.
Better if said with a British accent.
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