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Light and Landscape - Semi-abstract landscape photographs by Bob McClelland.
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Photography We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Photography
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Photography Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Photography
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Photography "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Photography
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Photography Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Photography
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Photography Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Photography
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Photography No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Photography
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Photography Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Photography
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Photography We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Photography
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Photography This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Photography
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Photography "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Photography
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Photography The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Photography