Mark Twain

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

[Thanks Kiwibloke]

Bertrand Russell

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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Mahatma Gandhi

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.

Quote: Neil Armstrong

The Helix Nebula from La Silla Observatory Credit Nasa

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Neil Armstrong – First Man on The Moon.

The inspiration for this post from Catherine Sherman.

Dr Suess

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

Yogi Berra

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“If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.”

Woody Allen

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Thanks to GregR for these.

Albert Einstein

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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance.

Quotable Quotes – Burt Munroe

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What’s your name young man? ….. McFarland…Mike McFarland

I knew a McFarland, he used to sell milking machines in Timaru….

You must be related because he was a total prick…..

[The World’s Fastest Indian]

[Burt Munroe]

Courtesy of Kiwibloke.