Sunday Snippets

"It's really dangerous to think that what you look like is who you are."

--Portia de Rossi, People Magazine, November 15, 2010

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VETERANS DAY -- In 1954, Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day and its purpose extended to honor veterans of all US wars.

--Daily Factoid Widget

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"We cannot afford to listen to wishful thinkers or fanciful theorists and assume that their claims of effective treatments are true. Our mantra should be 'Show me the data.'"

--Howard Goldstein, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2000

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"Ignorance provides a vacuum that sucks in all kinds of ideas--some right, some irrelevant, some dead wrong, and some even harmful. The best hope for finding the correct and helpful answers is to evaluate critically the information that is presented to us."

--The Science and Fiction of Autism, Laura Schreibman

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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."

--Marcus Tullius Cicero; www.thinkexist.com

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"Through our fears and our regrets, our sadness and our hope, PostSecret reminds us that we are never as alone as we feel and shows us we are all connected, whether we recognize it or not."

--Curator, Winnipeg Art Gallery; www.postsecret.com

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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

--Albert Camus; www.thinkexist.com

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"Don't be afraid to take that big step."

--My fortune cookie from P.F. Chang's