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  1. Frank

    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Some good ones there Bugs ;)

    Here's a good one also:

    "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

    -- Francis Bacon
     
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    i love bugs The Weatherman of Craggy Island

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    Another Irish author , Brendan Behan said
    " The big differance between sex for money and sex for free is sex for money usually costs a lot less "
    " There is no such thing as bad publicty except perhaps your own obituary" 8) Bugs
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Immortality -- a fate worse than death.

    -- Edgar A. Shoaff
     
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    EJ Allotmenteer Extraordinaire

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    It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are
    given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.
    - Wayne Winterrowd
     



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    i love bugs The Weatherman of Craggy Island

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    Men always want to be a womans first love , women like to be a mans last romance .
    Oscar Wilde
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

    -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
     
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    i love bugs The Weatherman of Craggy Island

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    "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind ".
    Mahatma Ghandi .............
    Surely even more appropriate in 2006 8) Bugs
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

    Mahatma Gandhi
     
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    i love bugs The Weatherman of Craggy Island

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    The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it , I can resist anything but temptation .
    Oscar Wilde
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
    ---= Henry Ward Beecher


    Oh, brother, tell me about it. I am even weaker in a HalfPriced Books Store.
     
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    Toni, visit McMurtry's bookstores in Archer City, Texas. It's between Dallas and Wichita Falls. We went there when Andrew was stationed in Wichita Falls. We didn't want to leave. Dooley
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece !!!!
    ;)
    Anon.
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Here's a nice quote I sent out in last week's newsletter:

    "Autumn is a second spring
    when every leaf is a flower."

    Albert Camus
     
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    "bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny"

    "he who made the greatest mistake was he who did nothing because he could only do a little"

    - Edmund Burke!

    His quotes always stick in my head, I have like 2 pages of them! - Interesting stuff!
     
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    "I think, therefore I am."

    Rene Descartes
     

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