If you don't go far enough ...

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
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A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
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Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
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I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
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Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
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