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Coming down life's highway
At ninety mile an hour
I want to slide
With bad brakes and bald tires
Into my final parking space


Richard L. Ratliff

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GIORGE LEEDY People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
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It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct...
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
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like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fad...
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I've held your hand in mine
RICHARD L. RATLIFF When you build a house
You nail down memories
Paint and stain the fabric of time
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I love wearing a well tailored suit.
Strutting in my sartorial repute.
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring
RICHARD L. RATLIFF God is my superman
I tug on his cape:
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I would have saved more of these memories
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But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping ...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Hugged my son today
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That cures my emotional infection
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Of all the stages comings and goings
Helping us remember heroe...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I'm the cover of a book,
Whose pages are still being written
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Snow is both sides of the same page
It covers the grave and the tulip
RICHARD L. RATLIFF She is a smile in the dark
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle
Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again
RICHARD L. RATLIFF As I think therefore I am
Am I more if I think more?
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Balanced at the top of the hill
Do I explore the other side
RICHARD L. RATLIFF As the sun sinks
It casts that silver bridge
Across the lake
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Let's travel our own interstate highway
Don't let yesterday's ghosts destroy your day
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A woman of complex and lasting beauty
RICHARD L. RATLIFF A trim and tan bikini clad Aphrodite
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RICHARD L. RATLIFF Always enjoyed a smile with dimples
But time adds wrinkles to the smile
RICHARD L. RATLIFF There is nothing to fear
From your reflection
RICHARD L. RATLIFF We learn and grow
Always building on what we know
RICHARD L. RATLIFF You read my words and instantly we are both connected
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Your dreams give me a safety net
Your smile the light that leads me on
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Before golden years expire
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Pur...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Snow
While falling it hides your passage
When finished it documents your path
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Watering our memories as they bloom
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From me to dad to her
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It's full of unique bullet points
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It can clean a surface or erase memories
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KARA RATLIFF The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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RICHARD L. EVANS Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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RICHARD L. EVANS May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of ...
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RICHARD L. EVANS Any task in life is easier if we approach it with the one at a time attitude. ... To cite a whimsica...
RICHARD L. EVANS You know who/what we can rely on? People.
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L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
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L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
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L. ESTRANGE We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
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METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
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METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
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L. DUARTE Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L. We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
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RICHARD LEAKEY I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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RICHARD DAWSON God bless all the little children in the world.
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