tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75916980185701715282024-03-05T16:49:27.502-08:00Daily QuotationEmily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-16423462062581599452015-12-10T06:23:00.000-08:002015-12-11T06:24:03.069-08:00Dave Barry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-59291704364177183392015-12-09T08:39:00.000-08:002015-12-10T08:40:08.658-08:00Chuck Palahniuk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-61340436528792550442015-12-08T08:38:00.000-08:002015-12-10T08:38:28.548-08:00E.B. White<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-3123651681216140512015-12-07T08:34:00.000-08:002015-12-10T08:36:04.361-08:00Aeschylus<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"There is no avoidance in delay."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-64215053532841471512015-12-06T08:29:00.000-08:002015-12-10T08:29:56.503-08:00James Jones<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-60139599501774869342015-12-04T08:26:00.000-08:002015-12-10T08:26:23.634-08:00George Bernard Shaw<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-38615626081731750852015-12-03T07:59:00.000-08:002015-12-10T07:59:11.544-08:00John Steinbeck<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."</div>
Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-47755774776800570282015-12-02T08:33:00.000-08:002015-12-10T07:54:45.136-08:00Marie Kondo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"At their core, the things we really like do not change over time. Putting your house in order is a great way to discover what they are."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-91958266895069822892015-12-01T08:22:00.000-08:002015-12-02T08:22:55.521-08:00Phillip Pullman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-58404003283210629362015-11-30T13:41:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:41:43.675-08:00H. Jackson Brown, Jr.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-59772803447058391362015-11-29T13:36:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:39:37.458-08:00Kristin Armstrong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-30362565409013674352015-11-27T13:35:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:36:48.992-08:00Mark Twain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-3571240139336587612015-11-26T13:32:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:35:09.368-08:00Erma Bombeck<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times are twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-52580402725647167282015-11-25T13:27:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:32:35.551-08:00Dwight Schrute<div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />"Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up, I performed my own circumcision."</div>
Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-90409960528788884082015-11-24T13:26:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:27:06.024-08:00Agatha Christie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life, I think, is to have a happy childhood."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-83658652171256362852015-11-23T06:48:00.000-08:002015-12-01T13:17:44.147-08:00Paul Cezanne<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-6778974494390582142015-11-22T07:53:00.000-08:002015-11-23T07:58:25.648-08:00Tom Hodgkinson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-41177291698939004042015-11-20T07:53:00.000-08:002015-11-23T07:53:21.370-08:00Anne Lamott<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal [bible] and you should die, infidel."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-33451850137141232082015-11-19T07:46:00.000-08:002015-11-23T07:46:54.285-08:00Ogden Nash<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-24291855344821618252015-11-18T07:20:00.000-08:002015-11-20T07:20:34.794-08:00Henning Mankell<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-30470304973827065972015-11-17T10:33:00.000-08:002015-11-20T07:16:45.571-08:00Plato<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-43411387734672451102015-11-16T19:26:00.000-08:002015-11-17T19:26:49.991-08:00Mark Twain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-83079908105066950392015-11-15T08:09:00.000-08:002015-11-16T08:09:21.050-08:00Martha Beck<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-46678783356860273312015-11-13T18:22:00.000-08:002015-11-16T08:09:40.393-08:00bell hooks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."Emily Guy Birkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07936113655259874086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591698018570171528.post-51392167137252508682015-11-12T18:16:00.000-08:002015-11-15T18:16:34.008-08:00F. Scott Fitzgerald<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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