Quote of the Day - October

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October 1st

My goal is to someday be the person my dog thinks I am.
-- Author Unknown

4dk - boy do I understand this quote and when you really think about it - this is not a bad goal, in some cases unattainable but all in all, not a bad goal.

 

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October 2nd

To err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
-- Lane Olinghouse

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October 3rd

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

 

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October 3

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost

Here's a couple more:

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky

Okay, it's a little "overkill" here with quotes, but I could not restist this one:

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
- Katarina Witt

 

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OK, it's afternoon and no quote! So here goes:

Whenever you start to say that you "should" do something, or worse yet, that "they should" do something, just stop it....You either will or you won't, and whatever "they" do is beyond your puny controls anyway..
Sharon Fiffer, in "The Wrong Stuff"

 

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October 5th

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

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October 6th

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

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October 7th

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

 

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October 8th

My life has no purpose...my life has no direction...no aim...no meaning...and yet I'm happy...I can't figure it out...What am I doing right?
-- Charles Schulz


October 9th

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
-- Mohandas Gandhi


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October 10th

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

 

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October 11th Columbus Day (Observed USA*)

When he (Columbus) started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been. — Anonymous.

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Columbus Day
Over the following decades, the Knights of Columbus, an international Roman Catholic fraternal benefit society, lobbied state legislatures to declare October 12 a legal holiday. Colorado was the first state to do so on April 1, 1907. New York declared Columbus Day a holiday in 1909 and on October 12, 1909, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes led a parade that included the crews of two Italian ships, several Italian-American societies, and legions of the Knights of Columbus. Since 1971 Columbus Day, designated as the second Monday in October, has been celebrated as a federal holiday. In many locations across the country Americans parade in commemoration of the day.

 

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October 12th Columbus Day (Traditional)

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-- Andre頇Gide

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE SPANISH EMPIRE

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October 13th

Well done is better than well said.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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October 14th

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
Steven Wright (1955 - )

 

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October 14th

Today is the 938th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. The outcome of this battle changed the destiny of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and eventually Africa, North and South America.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
-- Edmund Burke

For more information, please visit this splendid site

While Battle Abbey is not usually on everyone's list of places to visit while in England, it is a bit touristy but jam packed with historical information.

Visit this site for more information on Battle Abbey, East Sussex, England

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October 15th

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
John C. Dvorak

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October 16th

I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Bill Watterson


October 17th

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
-- Evan Esar

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October 18th

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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October 19th

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
Bradley's Bromide

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October 20th

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
-- Akhenaton

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