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"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."

respice prospice

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.
writetothem.com
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
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

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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

never imagine people don’t notice your shoes need a polish

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 [

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Maids of Honour by another name?

These seem similar to the cakes that, in Britain, they call ‘Maids of Honour’ and some months ago, spotting them in a favourite tea-shop, they set me off wondering about the potential for double-entendre and vulgarity in many food names. Maids of Honour cakes were apparantly named by Henry VIII.

Without a shred of embarrassment we buy Bloody Marys to wash down our Stinky Bishop cheese and so on, and in return lots of things and body-parts get given food names – I am sure there are lots more …

Clever use of the apostrophe, worth mulling

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change is hard – wear a helmet

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.

who moved my cheese

Who Moved My Cheese

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did I forget to thank Steve? - he might be Steve but he's our Steve

we are in this together

Almost cut my hair It happened just the other day It’s gettin’ kind of long I could’ve said it was in my way

But I didn’t and I wonder why I feel like letting my freak flag fly And I feel like I owe it, to someone

Must be because I had the flu for Christmas And I’m not feeling up to par It increases my paranoia Like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car

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Grateful rolling

“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls” (Bob Weir, Grateful Dead)

10 things Milton Glaser has learned

Milton Glaser – 10 things I have learned.

Forrest Gump said …

You know it’s funny what a young man recollects? ‘Cause I don’t remember bein’ born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

“You’ll get over it, I did” was what the voice said to me.

Al Batt

“‘The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.’”

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