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All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game. ~Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours



We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anais Nin



Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown



If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice



The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arab Proverb



Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying



We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon



There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides



The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ~William Shakespeare



My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~Shel Silverstein



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The common thread that binds nearly all animal species seems to be that males are willing to abandon all sense and decorum, even to risk their lives, in the frantic quest for sex. ~Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, A Natural History of Rape



Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. ~Bulstrode Whitlock



Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. ~Ravensara Noite



Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo



There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Richard Buckminster Fuller