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July 27, 2006 - There are seven sins in the world:

- wealth without work

- pleasure without conscience

- knowledge without character

- commerce without morality

- science without humanity

- worship without sacrifice

- politics without principle

-- Mahatma Ghandi

February 18, 2006 - Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
-- Nancy Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest

January 31, 2006 - "Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace..." - Plato. Republic, Book III.

January 6, 2006 - "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes

January 1, 2006

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
-Thomas Mann

Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
-Sir Walter Scott

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
-Bill Vaughn

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
-Author Unknown

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
-Author Unknown

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
-Charles Lamb

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
-Hartley Coleridge

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
-Bill Vaughan

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
-Charles Lamb

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
-Edward Payson Powell

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
-Henry Ward Beecher

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
-George William Curtis

I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
-Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
-P.J. O'Rourke

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

Added December, 2005

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

- Plato

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." - Albert Einstein

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Emerson

Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

- Bible

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

- William Shakespeare

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

- George Elliott

Skill to do comes from doing.

- Emerson

All men's gains are the fruits of venturing.

- Herodtus

Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.

- Bible

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints on your heart. To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

- Goethe

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you lost it.

- Anon.

Forever endeavor, forever and ever.

- MJSD

A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

- Ambrose Bierce

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his action.

- Confucious

To live is to burn.