My heart goes out to the good people of Oklahoma. My heart goes out to refugees. My heart goes out to all children who aren’t having a terrific childhood. My heart goes out to everyone in Boston who was injured in the bombings. My heart goes out to the homeless, to the hungry, to the abused. My heart goes out to the victims of bullying and to rape victims. My heart goes out to those who can’t make the next mortgage payment or cover next month’s rent.

My heart keeps breaking and my feelings are often in tatters. I shutter and wince when a ferry goes down in waters off Bangladesh. I moan for every entombed miner, I grieve when trains collide, and I curl up in a ball when headlines of violent crimes keep streaming across the internet, day after day; month after month.

So my heart requires daily transfusions of trees and flowers and the breeze on my face. My heart gets energy from babies and dogs, from Sam & Dave, Paul Simon, and the Southern Rock of Little Feat and The Allman Brothers Band.

I draw upon shows like “Call The Midwife,” and actors like Denzel Washington and John Goodman. That is why I need the Red Sox, the Patriots, and the Crimson Tide. Certainly, love from my own children fills my heart with happiness and pride. But like all parents, I worry for them. I worry about them. I try not to, but… I am their father and that is simply part of the job description.

My heart is bolstered by every kindness and appreciation in all forms.

My heart usually tells me that I am safe and things are all right. I know where my kids are. In my heart I know that fathers and mothers in Moore, Oklahoma felt just fine two days ago. It can all change in a heartbeat.

So I am thankful. Meanwhile, tragedies keep happening. The News is one bad thing after another. Congress is crippled by partisan meanspiritedness. The floods, the earthquakes, the gas leaks, the rejections; the wishes that go ungranted, the prayers that go unanswered. I swallow it all in. I look for grace and for miracles.

I live in a world that turns and burns. It is cruel and wondrous, bitter and sweet, impossible and entirely possible. It is probably the same for you as well. We write our own stories, to the extent that we can. But 2013 belongs to us all, and we catch the starfish with the seaweed. The bitter herb and the harosis. Poverty kills. Joblessness kills. Stupidity kills. We all want security and opportunity. We want a fair shake in life. My heart is full of hope and despair – Harry Lipson III, 5-21-13


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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” – Mark Twain

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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” – Dr. Seuss

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself” - Benjamin Franklin

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“An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s” – Will Rogers

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“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” – Rodney Dangerfield

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.“ - Sir Winston Churchill

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“Electricity is really just organized lightning” - George Carlin

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“Don’t drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon“

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“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum

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“If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking” – General George S. Patton

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“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” – Robert Redford

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“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking” – unknown author

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself” - Benjamin Franklin

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“Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.” – Mary McGrory

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“You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it’s so rich.” – Robert Duvall

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

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“Imagination rules the world” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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“What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their own communities, in our country and around the world.” – Chelsea Clinton

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“An idea is salvation by imagination” - Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin

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“If you are going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill

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“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind” - Mahatma Gandhi

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“The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future” – Story Musgrave, astronaut

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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions” - Albert Einstein

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“Consciousness: That annoying time between naps“

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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it” – Maya Angelou

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“Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.” – J.K. Rowling

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“Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.” ― Paul Krugman, Nobelist in Economics

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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’” – Charlie Brown, in Peanuts

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“You don’t need a parachute to sky dive, you need a parachute to sky dive twice“

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“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.” – Roseanne Barr

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“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.” – Rachel Dratch

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“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin

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“Think off-center” – George Carlin

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“I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.” – Elaine Boosler

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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss, famous philosopher

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“Being invited to travel roads less taken, is like the gods asking you to dance.” - Tom Robbins (as recollected)

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -
George Bernard Shaw

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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” – Bertolt Brecht

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How can the world end in 2012 when I have yogurt that expires in 2013?

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“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles Schulz

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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.” – Kris Kristofferson

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“Sometime the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” - Dr. Seuss

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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” – Mark Twain

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“Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!” ― Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister

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“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.” – Casey Stengel, baseball manager

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Somewhere along the way, after I was too old to trick or treat, I began to question Halloween.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, Americans had just come out of World War Two, and Halloween was a jolly, lighthearted, innocent night, essentially for kids, who safely walked around their neighborhood in homemade costumes or store bought masks.

What once was a children’s holiday has somehow morphed into a night for crazed teenagers and twenty-somethings to “get their demon on.”

Holidays are as American as apple pie. The 4th of July and Thanksgiving are joyous occasions. Not so much Halloween.

When did Halloween, with a pumpkin for a mascot, morph into blood, gore, ghosts, goblins, caskets, skeletons, zombies, ghouls, bloodcurdling screams, undertakers, gravestones, horror, death, and fear? I recognize historical and allegorical connections between Halloween, All Saints Eve, Paganism, witchcraft, and idolatry, among other rituals and the late October calendar.

I cannot prove the causality and effect, but as Halloween has become edgier, our society has too.

There are plenty enough crazies that I don’t think we don’t need a sanctioned night of mayhem. Detroit, historically, and other American cities get to put their under appreciated firefighters, police, and first responders to the test, fighting the “good clean fun” of Halloween.

Another example: For much of October, the Boston Globe online; Boston.com, currently runs a regular feature called the “50 Scariest Movies of All Time.” As I write this, they are now asking readers to identify the “Scariest Houses in Their Town.” The Boston Globe and Boston.com are presenting Horror as something readers should notice and take an interest in.

Isn’t there enough real horror being reported in the Metro and Front pages of the Boston Globe to give the Boston Globe/ Boston.com the wisdom to pause and reflect on what they are glorifying, condoning and promoting. Here is an example of one of their lead “features” on October 27, 2012:

(From BOSTON.COM 10-27-12) : -

Barrett’s Haunted Mansion

This haunted house in Abington features evil clowns, monsters, and scared visitors.|

op 50 scariest movies of all time

Who benefits from Halloween? Who has taken a simple children’s holiday and changed it so radically?

Certainly Hollywood, which makes large fortunes on horror movies and related merchandising, is a large part of the problem. Today, Horror films have graduated from B movies to top grossing films. Slasher films, etc. Younger generations are desensitized to seeing horror and fright. They actually enjoy it!

Okay, look, children dressing up and going around the neighborhood is friendly, exciting, and wonderful. Adults dressing up in costumes and going to parties is great too. Not everything about Halloween is bad. Halloween has been distorted into “Gruesome is Great Fun.”

But this darker side to Halloween is arguably a bellweather symptom of the loss of innocence in society. I am anything but Pollyanish, I just don’t happen to view this as a particularly positive development.

It floors me think that the Aurora, Colorado movie theater, where so much horror and violence actually occurred, might, if they reopen, show Horror movies. That is both cruel and unusual to me. I feel similarly about any of the neighboring Aurora theaters showing the gratuitous violence and mayhem that are Horror flicks. Maybe some towns and cities have had enough. Surely, Aurora has.

I am not for censorship, but I am for a good hard look at the effects that movies have on our lives, especially the lives of those under the age of 30.

I have come to believe that Halloween increasingly promotes neither healthy nor worthwhile values.

To socially promote this Night of the Living Dead just seems screwed up to me.

You want to see horror, visit The Holocaust Museum, go to Israel and experience Yad Vashem, or travel to Germany and take in Bergen-Belson. You could check out the electric chair at Kilby Prison, or Angola, or Sing-Sing, or down in Huntsville, Texas.

Once upon a time, Halloween was a child’s holiday, essentially for little kids. When I was young, we walked without fear in our neighborhoods. Our parents never worried that we would be harmed.

Let’s get together and try to turn Halloween in a more positive direction.

I’ll take a pass on all the blood and gore. The desensitizing effect of horror has far reaching and deep social and societal impacts that are devaluing all of us. I like my holidays to be happy and/or meaningful. Non religious holidays are synonymous with happiness (“it’s a holiday”, “going on holiday”, “happy holiday”) Halloween these days, not so much. There are enough truly bad and scary realities in life without condoning, sanctioning, having a holiday that only Voldemort should love.

Harry



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“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” - Paul Walker

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IN HONOR OF THE 39TH RYDER CUP. GO USA!

John, one of the older club members, was about to putt when he noticed a funeral procession driving slowly past the golf course. In response, he took off his cap and solemnly bowed his head. Another member of the foursome asked, “Did you know the deceased, John?” Nodding, John donned his cap and started to putt again. “In fact,” he said, “today is our fiftieth wedding anniversary.”

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“Progress is all right. It’s just that it has gone on too long.” - James Thurber

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“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck” -
George Carlin

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seen on t-shirt: – I’m not bossy… I just have better ideas

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“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven” – Henry Ward Beecher

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“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.” – Jerry Garcia

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“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.” - Dan Rather

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“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle” – Erin Majors

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“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook” – William James

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“I learned the first night that IHOP’s not the place to order fish” – Larry David

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway

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“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain

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“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” – Saul Bellow

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“I’m going to be 60, and I’m almost used to myself.” – Martin Scorsese

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“When someone tells you that nothing is impossible, ask them to dribble a football“

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“A penny saved IS a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.” – Gertrude Stein

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

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“AMERICANA music is the fertile ground where Rock, Roots, Bluegrass, Celtic, Southern Rock, Appalachian, Austin alternative country, Folk, and the Delta blues collide“. – Harry Lipson III – harry@harryShots.com

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“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.” – Cesar Chavez

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“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always” – Rita Rudner

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“Poverty is the mother of crime” - Marcus Aurelius

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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes” - Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Well done is better than well said” – Benjamin Franklin

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“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” - Robert Redford

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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” – Dr. Seuss

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“A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.” – Jack Nicholson

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“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.” - William Simon

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“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” – Ken Venturi, U.S. Open Golf Champion

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“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” – Louis Brandeis

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“We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet.
Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

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“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington

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“One tequila two tequila three tequila floor” – T-Shirt.

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“The best comedy I ever did was when people didn’t know who I was.” – Chevy Chase ( “I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not” )

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“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.” – Mark Twain

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“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” - Erma Bombeck

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“An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s” – Will Rogers

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life… is to continually fear that you’ll make one“ - Elbert Hubbard

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“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” – Bob Hope

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“Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa“ - Casey Stengel

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“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts” – Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

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“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything“ - Mark Twain

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“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens” – Andy Rooney

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“Every day is Earth Day“

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“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard

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“If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.” – Mel Brooks

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“If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing

rock and roll or any other form of popular music” —-
Keith Richards

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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash

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“No one has ever drowned themselves in sweat” – Coach Lou Holtz

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“A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of “

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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill

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“The meal is not over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.” – Louis C.K.

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It is reported that James Hood died today. from THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS 1-17-2013:-

{ “James Hood, who faced down George Wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door to help integrate the University of Alabama 50 years ago, died Thursday afternoon at the age of 70, in his hometown of Gadsden. James did a great thing for the University of Alabama,” said E. Culpepper Clark, former dean of UA’s College of Communication & Information Sciences, and author of “The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama.”

“With Vivian Malone, he liberated the university to serve all the people of Alabama and thereby join the ranks of the nation’s flagship universities.”

Hood and Vivian Malone Jones, who died in 2005, attempted to register and pay fees June 11, 1963, at UA’s Foster Auditorium, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Gov. George Wallace, surrounded by a phalanx of state troopers, barred them, attempting to keep his infamous inaugural promise of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Later that day, Wallace backed down after President John F. Kennedy federalized the National Guard. }

JAMES HOOD WAS HERE. Thank you Sir. Lord, may he rest in peace. – HL


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“Everywhere is within walking distance… if you have the time”

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“I don’t think you can ever get enough pickin’.” – Earl Scruggs 1924-2012

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“Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.” – Roger Miller, songwriter

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“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger

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“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

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“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” – Dick Cavett

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“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – General George Patton

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“Believe you can, and you’re half way there.” – Teddy Roosevelt

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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” – Fred Rogers / Mr. Rogers

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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

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“Why are they called apartments if they are all stuck together?“

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“If a man does his best, what else is there?” – General George S. Patton

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“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.” – Alan Alda

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“Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake” - Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” ― Lily Tomlin

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“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe” – Andy Rooney

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“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” – Ralph Nader

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“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” – Les Brown

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“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”

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“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” – Satchel Paige

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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.” – George Carlin

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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.” – Joan Rivers

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“The Past may not be your fault, but the Future is your responsibility alone” – Gene Cruz

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“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” – Woody Allen

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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.” - President Jimmy Carter

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“If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

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“I’m happy now!” - Nick Saban, 3-time National Champion Football Coach of The University of Alabama

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“If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.” – Mitch Albom

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“I’m no different from anyone else with two arms, two legs, and 4200 hits” – Pete Rose

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“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don`t need it.” – Bob Hope

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“No man is happy who does not think himself so” – Publilus Syrus

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“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think” – Milton Berle

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“I can only please one person per day. Today isn’t your day…and tomorrow don’t look good either” – anonymous

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“Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.” – Anonymous

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“I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture” – Bob Uecker

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“Isn’t having a smoking section in a restaurant sorta like having a peeing section in a pool?” - anonymous

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“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

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“I am easily satisfied with the very best” – Sir Winston Churchill

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“If you think its expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” – Red Adair, oil well fighter

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“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” - Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson

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“Only in darkness are you able to see the stars” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

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“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.” – Daniele Vare

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“First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.” – George Burns - on aging

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“The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.” – Dave Barry

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“He got hit so hard that I had to get all the married men off the field” – Hall of Fame baseball manager, Whitey Herzog, on his starting pitcher’s day

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“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent” - George Carlin

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May 2013 bring good health and happiness to all my friends; I wish you the very best.
Let us renew our faith in ourselves, and in each other, and let safety and well-being be a given for everyone, everywhere. Happy New Year. – Harry


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“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” - Bruce Barton

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“I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead” – Gary Shandling

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“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Coach Lou Holtz

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“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.” – former Vice President Dan Quayle (Republican)

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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing” – William James

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“When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper” - Andy Rooney

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“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage” – President Teddy Roosevelt

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“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket“. – Will Rogers

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“You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.” – Yogi Berra

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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss“ - Black Elk

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It will save SO much time“

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“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.” – James Thurber

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“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” – George Washington

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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen Degeneres

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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday“

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“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude” – Dale Carnegie

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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” – President John F. Kennedy

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“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.” — General Robert E. Lee

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“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop“. – Sir Winston Churchill

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“I know a way to stay friends forever, There’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it” - Shel Silverstein

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” ― Henry Ford

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“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise” – Gore Vidal 1925-2012

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“You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R’s only one begins with an R.” – Dennis Miller

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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”  -  Harriet Tubman

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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness“. – Dalai Lama

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“Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway“

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“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports … all others are games.”- Ernest Hemingway

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“I’ve had all the lessons I could get. I’ve learned from everybody I’ve ever met.” – Levon Helm

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“Peace begins with a smile“ - Mother Teresa

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“If you can’t get someone out of your head,.. then maybe they are supposed to be there“

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“I’m not bossy… I just know what you should be doing“

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” – Francis Bacon

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“I’ll believe it if I see it“ for dogs translates to “I’ll believe it if I smell it.” So don’t bother yelling at them; it’s the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.” ― Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer

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“The magic doesn’t come from within the director’s mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.” – James Cameron

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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see“ – Mark Twain

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“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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“On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.” – Dan Jenkins

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“The thing I would encourage you to do is to go where your love is. Go where you heart tells you to go. I think that it’s difficult to work in a job that you really don’t like, that you really don’t enjoy. If you’re doing something that you love and is a lot of fun, it’s a lot easier to come to work every day.” - Coach Bill Belichick

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“Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.“ – Marilyn Monroe

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“Baby used to play with her hula hoops, now she tells her problems to therapy groups” – John Prine, from “The Sins of Memphisto”

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“My wife tells me one day, ‘I think you love baseball more than me.’ I say, ‘Well, I guess that’s true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.’” – Tommy Lasorda

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“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” – Eudora Welty

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“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” – W. C. Fields

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“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – Coach John Wooden

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“Men that are bald have simply grown too tall for their hair.” – anonymous

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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway

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“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father” – Gloria Steinem

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“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known as the other person.” - Carrie Fisher

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“I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about” - Martin Short

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“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” – Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter

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“Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV“

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter“ - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.” – Steven Wright

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“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“Candidates who throw dirt at opponents are definitely losing ground” – H. Lipson III

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“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” ― Woody Allen

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“The farther backwards you look, the farther forward you can see.” – Sir Winston Churchill

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“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

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Husband and wife drive by a farm, and see half a dozen large pigs rooting around in the mud. Husband says “relatives?” and the wife responds “yes, in laws.”

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“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.” - Ellen Degeneres

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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible” – The Dalai Lama

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“There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.” – Bill Clinton

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Sign: – “We Buy Junk and Sell Antiques“

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“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I am not blonde.” – Dolly Parton

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“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.” - Bobby Kennedy

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“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work“. – Vince Lombardi

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“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails“

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“Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.” – Andy Rooney

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“The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.” – Max Kaufmann

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“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

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“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states” – Will Rogers

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“Just saying ‘no’ prevents teenage pregnancy the way ‘Have a nice day’ cures chronic depression.” – Faye Wattleton

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“The main ingredient in stardom is the rest of the team.” – Coach John Wooden

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“Enjoy a safe lunch. Use a condiment.“

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“Madison Avenue figured out how to sell us what we didn’t know we needed, but had to have.” – Harry Lipson III

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“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.” – John Updike

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“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.” – Lily Tomlin

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain

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“When it rains….rain’s my choice.” – Dr. Harry “Big Daddy” Lipson, Jr.

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“I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch“ - Gilda Radner

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“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” – Red Adair, legendary oil well fighter

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There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can’t.

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“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – President Harry Truman

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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it“. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It’s kind of a masterpiece, man. It’s like The Godfather – I see it on the tube and I think I’m just going to watch a couple of scenes, but I end up watching the whole thing.” – Jeff Bridges, “The Dude,” regarding The Big Lebowski

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“I laugh so hard ’til the tears run down my leg“ - a rare Delta Blues joke, from the seminal blues tune, “Silverado in My Pathway“

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mohandas Gandhi

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“A good laugh and a great night’s sleep are the best cures for what ails“

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“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it“. – Coach Lou Holtz

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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress …. ah, but I repeat myself.” - Mark Twain

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“Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.” – Author Unknown

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“I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn’t have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.” – Bob Uecker, former Major Leaguer and baseball funnyman

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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere“. – Carl Sagan, astronomer

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“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.“ - Walt Disney

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain

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“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated” -  Coach Lou Holtz

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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs

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“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time” – Richard Cech

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“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” – Nora Ephron

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“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me” - Coach Jim Valvano

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“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault“. – John Henry Newman

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“Don’t cry because its over.

Smile because it happened.”

- Dr. Seuss

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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.” – Winston Churchill

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My heart goes out to the good people of Oklahoma. My heart goes out to refugees. My heart goes out to all children who aren’t having a terrific childhood. My heart goes out to everyone in Boston who was injured in the bombings. My heart goes out to the homeless, to the hungry, to the abused. My heart goes out to the victims of bullying and to rape victims. My heart goes out to those who can’t make the next mortgage payment or cover next month’s rent.

My heart keeps breaking and my feelings are often in tatters. I shutter and wince when a ferry goes down in waters off Bangladesh. I moan for every entombed miner, I grieve when trains collide, and I curl up in a ball when headlines of violent crimes keep streaming across the internet, day after day; month after month.

So my heart requires daily transfusions of trees and flowers and the breeze on my face. My heart gets energy from babies and dogs, from Sam & Dave, Paul Simon, and the Southern Rock of Little Feat and The Allman Brothers Band.

I draw upon shows like “Call The Midwife,” and actors like Denzel Washington and John Goodman. That is why I need the Red Sox, the Patriots, and the Crimson Tide. Certainly, love from my own children fills my heart with happiness and pride. But like all parents, I worry for them. I worry about them. I try not to, but… I am their father and that is simply part of the job description.

My heart is bolstered by every kindness and appreciation in all forms.

My heart usually tells me that I am safe and things are all right. I know where my kids are. In my heart I know that fathers and mothers in Moore, Oklahoma felt just fine two days ago. It can all change in a heartbeat.

So I am thankful. Meanwhile, tragedies keep happening. The News is one bad thing after another. Congress is crippled by partisan meanspiritedness. The floods, the earthquakes, the gas leaks, the rejections; the wishes that go ungranted, the prayers that go unanswered. I swallow it all in. I look for grace and for miracles.

I live in a world that turns and burns. It is cruel and wondrous, bitter and sweet, impossible and entirely possible. It is probably the same for you as well. We write our own stories, to the extent that we can. But 2013 belongs to us all, and we catch the starfish with the seaweed. The bitter herb and the harosis. Poverty kills. Joblessness kills. Stupidity kills. We all want security and opportunity. We want a fair shake in life. My heart is full of hope and despair – Harry Lipson III, 5-21-13


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“If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.” ― Aung San Suu Kyi

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“There is a time for departure even if there is no certain place to go.” – Tennessee Williams, playright

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” In an understatement, he said, ‘I ain’t no rocket surgeon’ “

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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

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“May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most“

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“There is nothing more annoying than two people talking while you’re trying to interrupt“

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“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.” – Meryl Streep

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in” – Henry David Thoreau

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“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

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“Dream as though you will live forever; live as if you may die tomorrow“

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“If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.” – George Washington Carver

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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out“. – Coach John Wooden

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“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” – George McGovern, Democratic Presidential Nominee

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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong” – Mohandas Gandhi

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“We don’t have to sacrifice a strong environment for a healthy economy.” – Dennis Weaver

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“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer

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