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Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #195 on: March 03, 2006, 07:52:40 PM »
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

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« Reply #196 on: March 03, 2006, 11:19:52 PM »
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

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« Reply #197 on: March 06, 2006, 05:49:22 AM »
speaking of the Oscars.......

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #198 on: March 06, 2006, 10:59:03 AM »
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #199 on: March 06, 2006, 01:20:38 PM »
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.  ~Phyllis Diller
~Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away~


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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #200 on: March 06, 2006, 07:20:37 PM »
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #201 on: March 06, 2006, 09:21:36 PM »
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher   

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #202 on: March 07, 2006, 05:44:52 AM »
hahaha...I love that last one, Spacey... ;D

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #203 on: March 07, 2006, 02:16:34 PM »
"When in doubt.... ATTACK!!!"

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #204 on: March 07, 2006, 04:34:19 PM »
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy



Hi Polly *s I kind of liked it too

Ragnar:  Rape, pillage, burn...in that order?  You're a scary man *l

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #205 on: March 07, 2006, 06:12:33 PM »
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

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« Reply #206 on: March 07, 2006, 08:33:43 PM »
I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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« Reply #207 on: March 08, 2006, 05:25:49 AM »
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #208 on: March 08, 2006, 02:49:58 PM »
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee 

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #209 on: March 08, 2006, 07:37:59 PM »
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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