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Quotes of the Day for 23 December 2004 - Prepare

Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, is the time of preparation. Isaiah and John the Baptist exhort Christians to prepare the way of the Lord, while merchants exhort us to get to the malls and buy stuff, magazines from the last quarter are filled with decorating tips and new recipes, and the delivery companies urge us to get our packages out early. Are you prepared? I'll bet you're better prepared than I am!

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
     - Colin Powell

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
     - Denis Waitley

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
     - J. J. Kersee

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
     - Jane Austen, 1775 - 1817

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.
     - Thomas Dreier

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