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Wisdom

* I tell a story about getting started in the right way. I did an essay years ago in school on "A Day at the Seaside," so I described the glittering sands, the yachts in the bay and especially the Technicolor bucket and the little toy spades. But then years later I realized I really hadn't told the truth. Because my mother didn't buy us buckets and spades. She was a frugal woman and we only had one day at the seaside and buckets and spades would be catchpennies, so she bought us a milk can and wooden spoons. So I'll say to call a wooden spoon a wooden spoon is the beginning of wisdom.
                                                                          -from a commencement speech at the University of
      North Carolina by Seamus Heaney

Witches

* But I may have gone too far this time. Cat owners, feminists, Republicans, Mormons, Ford owners, Virgos and vegetarians are one thing. So are politicians, Catholics, snowmobilers, frat boys, newspaper editors, and my kids.
      Witches are another. Frankly, I should have remembered all those bedtime stories.
      For the record, I prefer being turned into a Horned Toad.
                                                                          -from "Kirby: If Georgia Lawmaker Forces                  Witches Out of Military, Good Christian Bombs Will Reign Supreme" by Robert Kirby, Salt Lake     
     City Tribune Columnist

* Well, according to Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga, it's un-American to use magic. It's a whole lot more Judeo-Christian to blast people to bits with hight explosives.
                                                                          -from  by Robert Kirby, Salt Lake City Tribune
      Columnist

Women

*A Woman's Random Thoughts:
  Insanity is my only  means of relaxation.
  The nice part about living in a smalll town is that when you don't know what you doing, someone else
    does.
  The trouble with some women is that they get all excited  about nothing  (and then they marry him).
                                                                          -Unknown from e-mail

Writing

* No one asked you to write. And no one will care if you stop. And if you succeed, no one will
   notice. It's a rough, heartless business.
                                                                          -George V. Higgins