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Sayings worth heeding.

"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance."  Walt Whitman

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."  Walt Whitman

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."  Sylvia Plath

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  1. AnneSeptember 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM

    Excellent! I especially love the last part of the last one... "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." I wonder how many times I have let self-doubt stand between me and my creativity...my dream?

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  2. bob.severSeptember 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM

    thank you, Anne!

    Another one I carried in my wallet: You can doubt yourself into oblivian or you can trust yourself into greatness....

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  3. UnknownSeptember 16, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    Why do so many forget that first one. Would LOVE stop Hitler? No. Will LOVE stop Osama? No. Help others as much as we can but we MUST defend our country to the fullest extent. Liberals I'm talkin to you.

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