"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | How to polish shoes; 12 steps to heaven Wipe off dust with a damp cloth. Better to run them under a tap of running water (warm is good). Use either a soft cotton cloth or a fine natural bristle brush, whose hairs are tightly packed to the handle, to put on the polish. Apply polish to shoe in a small circular movement (magic finger); wrap cloth around finger, or evenly cover shoe with polish using the brush. (The key is not to put too much polish on the shoe–but build the polish and shine up in thin layers–”Fat on Lean” [ continue reading never imagine people don’t notice your shoes need a polish ] Who is the ‘us all’ in this – it certainly isn’t me! It’s simple enough, just ask the school to say how many children over the years have registered from the same flats and houses in Grazebrook, Barbauld, Carysfort, Burmah or Springdale roads and then the address is changed before their child makes October of year 7. Then magicly they have ‘moved’ to ‘just off’ Cazenove, Brook or Allerton roads. No science would be involved and it is the most open secret imaginable with flats rented for that very purpose year, after year, after year and the whole thing giggled [ continue reading Ed Balls’s insane education policies make school gate cheats of us all – Telegraph ] “Let neither financier inveigle the sheikh into seizing either species of weird leisure.” via The rules – The Boston Globe. When I was about 9 my teacher told me I was spelling my name incorrectly when I wrote MCNEILL and told me it must be MCNIELL. She gave me ‘lines’ and made me write it out this way 200 times; so I dutifully started writing this. My Dad saw this spelling on my new exercise book and complained to the school saying that he had sent me to school and, as a result, I could no longer spell my own [ continue reading hey McNeills ] “‘If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.’” (Via Motivational Quotes of the Day Bruce Barton: .) “‘Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.’” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Quotes of the Day Thomas H. Huxley: .) | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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