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A friend sent me a dozen quotes last night, and I thought a few in particular might have a resonance amongst the auld gang, given some of the aggro of the recent past - hope you enjoy, in the gentle spirit they are offered.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katherine Whitehorn
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
GK Chesterton
Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.
Isabelle Adjani, Time 1979
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Winston Churchill
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Good ones, Mav. I recently found myself thinking of The only person's behavior you can control is your own. I can't find an author to attribute it to, so lacking the facts, I'll say Mom.
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When the eagles are silent
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
NPR had a story about bald eagles recently and had some recorded raptor screeches to illustrate it. A registered raptorologist called in to complain that the bird calls they used were not those of a bald eagle but those of a red-tailed hawk. He went on to say that the sound of the bald eagle sounded like a cross between the honk of a goose and the quack of a duck that was being squeezed.
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I admire 'winnie, but I can't think of a place where eagles and parrots co-exist.
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a place where eagles and parrots co-existLondon Zoo? [/blitz] 
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where eagles and parrots co-exist.
Mexico, Central and much of South America?
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Same countries, of course, but same environments?
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Joe Ancis
Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a
hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a
man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou
hast hazel eyes; what eye but such an eye, would spy out
such a quarrel? Thy head is full of quarrels, as an egg is full of meat.
Shakespeare
A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.
Tillotson
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
Sidney
O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It was frae mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.
Burns
Open your purse and your mouth cautiously; and your
stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
Zimmerman
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Bacon
Immodest words admit of no defense
For want of decency is want of sense.
Earl of Roscommon
Fie! what a spendthrift he is of his tongue!
Shakespeare
Ill seemes (say'd he) if he so valiant be,
That he would be so sterne to stranger wight;
For seldom yet did living creature see
That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
Spenser
That best portion of a man's good life
His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love.
Wordsworth
The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Byron
Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
Shakespeare
That inexhaustible good nature, which is itself the most
precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable
in the roughest weather.
Irving
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Addison
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness
of which all mankind are agreed.
Cicero
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same environments?
I suspect. YCLIU. Google parrot range and eagle range. The bald eagle covers all of Florida and I know there's parrots in there. There is a swatch of West Africa working into central Africa that is a parrot range that may easily harbor an African eagle of one sort or another. I don't have the spare time to check into it but this is right up your alley.
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