Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality & mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable & your experience helpful.

Let those who do not, seek their own kind. Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915)

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" Music with dinner is an insult both

to the cook and the violonist ".

I for one cannot enjoy music I can´t

live without  whilst chewing ´n tucking in.

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" A banker is a fellow who lends you

his umbrella when the sun is shining,

buts wants it back the minute it begins

to rain ".   Mark Twain.

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" Always do right, this will gratify

some people and astonish the rest " .

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" The words that enlighten the soul, are more precious than jewels ", Hazrat Inayati Khan.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
     - Jeanne Moreau

Only intuition can protect you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent.
     - Robert Bernstein

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
     - Milton Friedman

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Pau Casals i Defilló (1876 – 1973)

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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
                       - Earl Nightingale, 1921 - 1989

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
                           - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that on had to explain nothing.

                -Katherine Mansfield- (1888-1923)

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If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world." — A.A. Milne,
Winnie the Pooh

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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
     - Victor Borge, 1909 - 2000

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" the price of greateness is responsibility " , Sir Wiston Chrurchill.

" I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals "   Sir Wiston Churchill.

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"What we think about , we bring about."

Sorry I can't remember who said it .

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"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist.

"Keep your friendships in repair."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above)

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.

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"Some people come into our lives and quickly go...Some people become friends and stay awhile leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same".

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 "Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life:in a certain sense,they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece." Pope John Paul II

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Here's the quote that came out as a red cross above:

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin 

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