another fun quote stumbled over on FB, of all places

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@@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ that I've chosen to pick up and carry with me...
 On Life
 -------
 
+<p>
+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+<br> -- Jon Meacham</p>
+
+<p>
+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet.  We 
+spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate.  If 
+during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate 
+with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
+<br> -- Gene Roddenberry</p>
+
+<p>
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes... 
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+<br>-- Will I Am</p>
+
 <p>
 "Taste your words before you spit them out."
 <br>-- Andy Card</p>
@@ -14,6 +31,10 @@ On Life
 <p>
 "That which hinders your task is your task."
 
+<p>
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+<br>-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
 <p>
 "Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
 <br>-- David Oyelowo
@@ -31,6 +52,14 @@ and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
 sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
 <br>-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
 
+<p>
+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed
+on, it would never be created exactly that way again.  There might be some
+other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense.  If all of science
+were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure
+it all out again."
+<br>-- Penn Jillette
+
 <p>
 "For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
 <br>-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -50,6 +79,10 @@ commit resources, or nothing new will ever be created."
 "Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
 <br>-- Will Henry
 
+<p>
+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
+<br>-- William Shakespeare
+
 <p>
 "Kids are more nimble than wise..."
 <br>-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece
@@ -187,6 +220,11 @@ is what will endear him to the locals."
 is traded for a worthy price."
 <br>-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch</p>
 
+<p>
+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that
+what life is?"
+<br>-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House
+
 <p>
 "Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
 <br>-- Alfred Hitchcock</p>
@@ -289,6 +327,10 @@ than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is
 sacred and virtue safe."
 <br>-- John Walter Wayland</p>
 
+<p>
+"A lady is never unintentionally rude."
+<br>-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree
+
 <p>
 "If ever a World Government should come into existence, it had better be a
 government designed to be run by crooks rather than a government designed to
@@ -323,6 +365,16 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
 <br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
 </p>
 
+<p>
+“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of 
+a witness.” 
+<br>-- Margaret Miller
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+<br>-- Margaret Mead
+
 On Programming
 --------------
 
@@ -334,7 +386,7 @@ to do a complete Debian desktop install!"
 <p>
 "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
 is not worth knowing."
-<br>-- Perlis</p>
+<br>-- Alan Perlis</p>
 
 <p>
 "We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust 
@@ -436,3 +488,4 @@ Things Said About Me
 "I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought, 
 'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"
 <br>--Eric Schwartz</p>
+