Quotes of Note +

You know who mr. grumpy is, don't you? In our home, it is usually the other way around. He goes to bed early and rises early, while I am just the opposite!

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Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful. (Ain't it the truth!)

Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

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Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion that which fulfills those conditions.

Robert Blatchford, author (1851-1943)

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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (Let's hope this happens soon!)

John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. And this makes it very, very scary!)

Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)

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My employer is taking his harem (Rhonda, Ruth, Leslie, Sandra and me) (plus his brother, who works with us on big events) to a nice luncheon today. If I remember my camera, I'll show you pix from it later on. We have a pink wedding on Saturday, and I do mean pink! It features pink crystals, pink ornaments, pink butterflies, pink roses, etc., and Lord knows what all pink stuff! It may turn my stomach, but I'll try to take photos of that also.

On Thursday, I took a tropical fruit upside-down cake to work. It was the second one I made of late and this one was better than the first, which had too much butter and was heavy in the belly. I could eat 6 slices of this one without batting an eyelash. Mel ate 2 slices! I think I did well!