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Mar

Spring has returned

Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Its days are close to twelve hours long with increasing day length, as it occurs near the time of an equinox. Springtime is a time of growth, renewal and of new life being born.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Tito El Bambino – El Amor

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. - Lewis Grizzard

Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? - Neltje Blanchan

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. - Ellis Peters

Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party! - Robin Williams

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. - Doug Larson

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. - Mark Twain

When spring comes the grass grows by itself - Tao Te Ching

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil - Bishop Reginald Heber

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Dec

The Magical Season of Winter

Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days and the lowest average temperatures, which have the coldest weather. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Willa Cather)

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. (Stanley Crawford)

There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. (by William Sharp)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Winter tames man, woman, and beast. (William Shakespeare)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

Grace grows best in winter. (Samuel Rutherford)

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. (Edith Sitwel)

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another, and one century and the next. (Andy Goldsworthy)

When snow falls, nature listens. (Antoinette van Kleeff)

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. (John Boswell)

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Nov

Quotations about computers, programming and internet

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. (Isaac Asimov)

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F. Kennedy

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind - Joseph Weizenbaum

We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins - Ellen Ullman

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

Computers can never replace human stupidity

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. – Nathan Myhrvold

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. – Linus Torvalds

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. – Abelson and Sussman

Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz

Before software should be reusable, it should be usable. – Ralph Johnson

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess. – Rod Michael

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Oct

Quotations about friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder

Friendship is one mind in two bodies

Friendship needs no words... - Dag Hammarskjold

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. - David Tyson

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All people want is someone to listen. - Hugh Elliott

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else

Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked - Bernard Meltzer

No man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall

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Sep

Golden Fall

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!”

Percy Bysshe Shelley