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Next Entries »A Jamaican proverb?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
Judah’s latest
Monday, March 14th, 2005Judah’s laying in my bed composing yet another original song. Here’s the chorus: “In my little heart, I know about my God … and I never forget about Him.”
For all Valentine’s Day romantics
Monday, February 14th, 2005“One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.” – Judith Viorst “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
Honest Abe – a man of perspective
Monday, February 14th, 2005“‘The short and simple annals of the poor.’ That’s my life, and that’s all you or anybody else can make of it.” – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in US News, “The real Lincoln” (2/21/05) How inspiring, especially considering Honest Abe is regarded as one of, if not the, greatest American president!
Be you
Friday, February 11th, 2005Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can’t win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. – Jim Collins For more on the subject of self-respect and identity issues, go [...]
This is Deep
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005Thanks to Fritz Kling, who emailed me the following Nelson Mandela quote from his 1994 Inaugural Address. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be [...]
Inaugural Quotables
Friday, January 21st, 2005“We cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time.” “You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers. You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs. Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, [...]
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