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I really like little bits o wisdom and quotes from interesting people..

Some of my favorites

What ever you are, be a good one
Abe Lincoln

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." -
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good Timber

• by Douglas Malloch

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.

"Enjoy each and every day, even today". Told to me by a man who was told he had 6 months to live, and has survived for many years after his cancer treatments.

''EXCESS in moderation''

J Wilson;8838 wrote: You should never examine your family tree too closely. You're likely to find a horse thief hanging from one of the branches. F. E. Wilson (F.W. Wilson's father)

I dont have to look very far... My Great Grandpaw Langdon was the last vigilantly lynching in Oregon .... Although by most accounts he was one of the good guys, it was the town law that was bad...

Some of Grandpaw Lucius escapades (Lucius Lambert Langdon, his son Lucius Lynn then my dad Lauren lynn then me Larry Lee

http://freepages.genealogy.roo...../snake.htm

http://eponaleah.wordpress.com.....010/05/16/

http://ohs.org/education/orego.....12E23F3A53

The definition of insanity; "Is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein

wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. :unsure:
Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. :smug:
Ronald Reagan
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