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#64103 04/06/02 03:26 PM
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So true about children. Their secret, I believe, is "maintaining freshness of appreciation". A difficult task as we grow older but one that if we can remember it helps us live a fuller and happier life.


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I like the definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Sorry Bill. That's an accountant not a cynic.






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Dear CK: What would you call the accountant who helped Enron rob so many of so much? Not cynics, to be sure, not quite crooks, but what? Not quite simply cowards, though fear of job loss was a big factor. Not quite co-conspirators, but close to it. What do you call a man who sees a blind man about to step into a manhole, but says nothing?


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Lord, please grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference

that a bit like the old irish prayer, angel,

May God bless them that loves us,
And then, that don't, May God turn their hearts.
And if he can't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we will know them by their limping!

but the most common one i heard as a child was
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil even knows you're dead!



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I've saved this for a long time, I don't remember where it came from.
To all my female heroes out there, homage to you all:
"Does a hero know she's a hero if no one tells her? Do you know a hero no one else knows? A hero doesn't have to save a busload of school kids from certain disaster. Or score the winning point in the big game. A hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to, anyone who cheers you on, makes you better than you were before-just as they made themselves better than they were before. Do you know a hero? Tell her. Then tell everyone."


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What do you call a man who sees a blind man about to step into a manhole, but says nothing?

Jerk!

...but that would be after a few others... way after!


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The dignity of simplicity.
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I imagine the meaning behind simplicity in this context is "sincerity", yet it has been forever since I have heard it used that way!


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The dignity of simplicity.
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I imagine the meaning behind simplicity in this context is "sincerity", yet it has been forever since I have heard it used that way!

musick, as far as I can tell, the phrase you quoted is demonstrated perfectly in Bingley's posts. Exactly.






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I won't name names for obvious reasons, but to me a heroine is someone who: gets up every day and does whatever it is that needs doing, day in and day out, in the face of continual stressors like wondering whether there'll be enough money for necessities; having faced--and survived--trauma(s); raising kids as a single parent; not always even having the necessities; not knowing whether things will ever get better. And on, and on. I admire you so much. All of you. You have already demonstrated strength far beyond what I could ever hope to achieve.


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I like the definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Sorry Bill. That's an accountant not a cynic.

Sorry, CK. Bill has it right. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act 3:

Lord Darlington. What cynics you fellows are!
Cecil Graham. What is a cynic? [Sitting on the back of the sofa.]
Lord Darlington. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.





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