Dr Wingnut

Month: October 2012

  • Just For Today

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    Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.Maria Robinson

  • Love

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    We like someone because, we love someone although.Henri de Montherlant

  • Vote No

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    Being unable to abolish love, the church sought at least to disinfect it, and thus created marriage.Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)•French PoetThe Minnesota marriage amendment would place the statement in the state constitution that marriage is between a man and a women.  I don’t see that description in this quote, I only see Love.

  • October

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    There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Obstacle

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    The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. That block of granite is often nothing more than a decision.Thomas Carlyle

  • The Programming Rules from HP’s Garage

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    The garage where Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP had its own core set of rules.  They apply equally to programming.The garage in Palo Alto where HP was born was the workplace of only two employees, the founders.  Yet, to keep their core beliefs front and center as they tinkered and toiled, they posted…

  • Lessons

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    If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.Anonymous