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I watched “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid” and I was reminded that, to this day, I am still dogged by many of the same old hang-ups I acquired in early adolescence, and in a big way. Born: 1965AUG14 As the years pass, time accelerates, and earlier memories seem more and more like something dreamt; even some of the worst episodes in our lives begin to take on a sentimental value: We were younger; time seemed unlimited; the future looked brighter; we were surrounded by friends and loved ones; we were still intrigued by new things; and after all, we did survive the whole ordeal intact – pretty much. Events that directly affect us take on a cosmic significance, while the plight of others is a source of annoyance – until it finally becomes clear that nobody cares about “us” either; and comments like “I wish I knew ‘then’ what I know ‘now’” is a common sentiment among many people. It seems like there should be some way to get a whole new chance to live our lives all over again, because we were “deprived of true happiness” or we were totally “cheated out of success”, etc.,because life is so unfair. This is true if nothing changes. It is because of these realities, that our dreams can take on a whole new significance.

Favorite saying

• "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein) "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." (Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan) “What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.” (Henry Ford) "In this movie, they solved their problems by fighting. We are not afraid to fight, but we have decided to try to solve our problems through dialogue. So this movie needs a better message." (This was a comment made by an Amazonian tribal elder to James Cameron about Avatar after seeing this movie in an Imax theater. This individual -- still wearing feathers and face paint -- had never seen a movie before or been in a theater before.)(Reference: http://io9.com/5611858/transformers-3-heads-to-russia-but-not-dc) "(...) The truth is that human intelligence can never be replaced with machine intelligence simply because we are not ourselves "thinking machines" in the sense in which that term is commonly understood." (Stephen Hawking) “Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.” (Admiral Hyman G. Rickover) "As soon as you think you know all the answers They change the questions" (Craig Scott) "We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers" (Carl Sagan) "There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, 'It's a shame that he has to die.' And Jesus is saying, 'Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!'" (Sam Kinison) “Well, you better start changin’ You’re life needs rearrangin’ You better do some talkin’ Or you better do some walkin’ now.” (Rush) “Right down to peaks you haven’t touched yet, Dreams you haven’t dreamed, And worlds you haven’t conquered -- The mind is endless. You put me in a dark, solitary cell And to you, that’s the end; To me, It’s the beginning. It's a universe in there; There’s a world in there; I’m free.” (Charles Manson) "I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." (Albert Einstein) "Money can't buy happiness, But it can definitely increase the potential for it." (unknown origin) “It is an ancient, dazzling relic, temporarily quarantined here in my glass, waiting to return to its kind, waiting to move a mountain.” (Barbara Kingsolver from Water Is Life) Irish Diplomacy... is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip. (An Irish saying) “The Jesus Nut is the nut that secures the main rotor to the aircraft. If this nut comes off, the main rotor detaches, the chopper drops like a stone, and those in the helicopter “meet Jesus.” (Unnamed helicopter pilot from The Story of the “Jesus Nut”) "Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly." (Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995) "Computers in the future may...perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons." (Popular Mechanics, 1949) "The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air." (Orville Wright)"