The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for July 5 to 11,
1992.  "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
Alan Wright.  Compilation copyright 1992 by same.  All Wright's rights
reserved.  These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
notice is retained.  100% satisfaction guaranteed or full refund of purchase
price at any time.  --:Dave
                                            
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   I am an unlimited person living in a limited world.  --Levendis, "The Man
Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" by Harlan Ellison
                                   
   Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
      --Elbert Hubbard
                              
   Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
      --Cyril Connolly
                         
   Sculpture:  Mudpies which endure.  --Cyril Connelly
                    
   People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
      --Joseph F. Newton
               
   Language has created the word _loneliness_ to express the pain of being
alone, and the word _solitude_ to express the glory of being alone.
   --Paul Tillich
          
     
      --Marcel Marceau
         
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   The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for July 12 to 18,
1992.  "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
Alan Wright.  Compilation copyright 1992 by same.  All Wright's rights
reserved.  These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
notice is retained.  Sony is a trademark of Sony.  --:Dave
                                        
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   Chance favors the prepared mind.  --Louis Pasteur
                               
   One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man.  --Elbert Hubbard
                          
   A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by
seeming rich.  --William Shenstone
                     
   Getting rich is easy.  It just takes a lot of work.
      --Heinrich Copernick, "Copernick's Rebellion" by Leo A. Frankowski
               
   I don't care what they do to me, I'm going to keep working on these
drapes till they find something that goes with that couch.
   --Cat tearing drapes, "Bizarro" cartoon by Dan Piraro
          
   We all know how stupid the average person is.  Now realize that, by
definition, 50% of the population is dumber than that.  --Ivan Stang
     
   Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress
their harms.  --William Shakespeare
          
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   The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for July 19 to 25,
1992.  "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
Alan Wright.  Compilation copyright 1992 by same.  All Wright's rights
reserved.  These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
notice is retained.  Not affiliated with the American Red Cross.  --:Dave
                                             
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   Idealists maintain that all nations should share the atomic bomb.
Pessimists maintain that they will.  --Punch
                                
   There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do
what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.  --Cyrus H. Curtis
                           
   Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is
always a vice.  --Thomas Paine
                      
   There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
      --Maurice Switzer
                
   You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
      --Booker T. Washington
               
   I am not a member of any organized party -- I am a Democrat.
      --Will Rogers
           
   Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old
should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength;
the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of
their hopes.  --Caleb Bingham
          
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   The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for July 26 to August 1,
1992.  "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
Alan Wright.  Compilation copyright 1992 by same.  All Wright's rights
reserved.  These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
notice is retained.  Drop in any mailbox.  --:Dave
                                        
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   Another tourist trap:  La Brea Tar Pits' Glass-Bottomed Boat Tours.
      --David Farley cartoon
                               
   One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in
themselves most excellent.  --Epictetus
                          
   The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
   --Henry Ward Beecher
                     
   I just lost my job.  Well, I know where it is, but whenever I go there,
some other guy is doing it.  --Gary Sutton
               
   I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the
thoughtless approval of the masses.  --Johann Kepler
           
   Consider the postage stamp, my son.  It secures success through its
ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  --Josh Billings
     
   Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable.
However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it
than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as
unattainable.  --Lord Chesterfield