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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:04 am

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:58 pm

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." Janis Joplin
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:14 am

"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:02 pm

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:45 am

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:55 am

"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:00 am

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
Richard Dawkins




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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:06 am

Proverbs 29:18 (King James Version)

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:19 pm

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:05 am

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:08 am

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:18 pm

"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:32 pm

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."
Ed Macauley
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:33 am

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:13 pm

"He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time."
Nigerian Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:52 pm

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."
Henry S. Haskins
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:34 pm

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."
Ralph Charell
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:11 pm

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."
Bruce lee
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:13 am

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
Ralph W. Sockman
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:10 am

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
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