Born on this day


Lucille Ball was born on this day 6th August 1911.

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There is only one way to avoid criticism . . .


There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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Someday you will be old enough . . .


” Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

C.S Lewis

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Whatever you are . . .


Whatever you are. Be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life . . .


Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens.

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If you do not breathe through writing…


If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.

-Anais Nin

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You have enemies?


You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood for something sometime in your life.

Sir Winston Churchill.

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“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.”


“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.” — Voltaire, French, writer, philosopher, historian

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Success consists of . . .


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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