Keep Calm and Love Flamingos

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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

Charley Harper

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

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Firefighters don't go on Strike!

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Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.

Susan Diane Murphree

Lady Liberty on Broadway

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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, they came from every point on the compass-many passing beneath the Statue of Liberty-with fear and vision, with sorrow and adventure, fleeing tyranny or terror, seeking haven, and all seeking hope...Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future.                                George H. W. Bush

Holy Cow!

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I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow. 

Gordon Ramsay

Life takes us to unexpected places... love brings us home.

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 “Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.” 

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien

Life is a Great Sunrise

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There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.       Bernard Williams

It’s the Unknown that Draws People

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” 

― Albert Einstein

If I can Bicycle, I Bicycle

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Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.                      Charles M. Schulz

Seas the Day

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Come walk with me, take off your shoes, let's walk the beach with only the moon to light the path and waves to hear you tell me you love me. Why does the ocean rock the moon to sleep every night? So the sun will wake and kiss the beach

J. Henson

Where There is no Struggle, There is no Strength.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.               Ernest Hemingway

"Keep your Heels, Head and Standards High"

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I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. 

And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.               Dolly Parton

"May we Never Forget Freedom isn't Free."

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On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.                    Eric Burdon

Truth is Powerful and it Prevails

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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. 
Robert Green Ingersoll

Motherhood: All Love Begins and Ends There

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

                   Aristotle

A Peony is a Friend Forever

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"A rose is a rose, but a peony is a friend forever" The peony is known as the queen of flowers in China, symbolizing wealth and elegance. An omen of good fortune, peonies may also be used to symbolize love and affection.

Fields are more Sacred than Sanctuaries

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      As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.                        David Mixner

Every Day is Earth Day

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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 

The Groves were God's First Temples

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.    Mother Teresa

Guns, Bombs, Warships are All Symbols of Human Failure.

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When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.       Cindy Sheehan

Art is the Daughter of Freedom

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Art, freedom and creativity will change society

faster than politics.              Victor Pinchuk

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay

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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, 

you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.     John Lennon 

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.           Maya Angelou

Why Politicians Profess they are Religious!

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has god on his side.          -Aristotle