Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison #memorialday

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must . . . undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine #memorialday

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~B Franklin #memorialday

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Savage
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt #memorialday

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right?
He's dead alone who lacks her light!
~Thomas Campbell
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All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling #memorialday

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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone . . . –NTesla |True.

When we have a rush of new members at http://NAIWE.com, it's usually because someone mentioned the association at a writer's group. Thanks!

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I #quote

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau #quote

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly #quote

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The temptation to explain is one that should almost always be resisted. John Gardner #quote

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day ~W. Shakespeare | So why does that deadline keep moving?

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What's a book worth? Book promoter Brian Feinblum cautions against undervaluing your work. http://ht.ly/4Oi97 #NAIWE

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. Julia Cameron

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.~Doug Larson

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