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I am the fabulous Bladen Wilder (Blay-den Wild-er)

I am an American, and yeah I'm proud of it.

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Inspiring Quotes
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. -George Washington

Somebody said to me, "But the Beatles are anti-materialistic." That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to say, "Now let's write a swimming pool." -Paul McCartney

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'- Ronald Reagen

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.- Ronald Reagen

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.-Abraham Lincoln

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!-Theodore Roosevelt

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.- J.K. Rowling

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.- J.R.R. Tolkien

Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is to late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.- The Slippery Slope (Lemony Snicket)

Normally it is not polite to go into someone's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead or pretending to be dead- The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)

Although "jumping to conclusions" is an expression, rather than an activity, it is as dangerous as jumping off a cliff, jumping in front of a moving train, and jumping for joy- The Vile Village (Lemony Snicket)

Rules You Will Need
Bill Gates gave a speech at a high school about eleven things they did not or will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. (My personal favorite is rule eleven.)

Rule 1: Life is not fair- get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make 60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teachers are hard, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it an opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they abolish failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the answer right. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employees are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your on time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.