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Facebook first launched February 4, 2004

“If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.”
– Jaron Lanier

“Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.”
– John Battelle

Thank a Mail Carrier Day – February 4

“Nobody understands holiday anxiety like a USPS employee.”
– Unknown

“The longest rural mail delivery route happens daily in Phillipsburg, KS. The carrier travels 185.5 miles a day delivering mail to 228 mailboxes.”
– news10.cpm

“Can you read this? The Postal Service has a special unit dedicated to deciphering messy handwriting. Employees at the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, Utah are responsible for deciphering messily printed addresses.”
– news10.com

Valentine’s Day – February 14

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved”.
– George Sand

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get- only what you are expecting to give- which is everything.”
– Katherine Hepburn

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine”
– Maya Angelou

“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?”
– Dorothy Parker

“No one will win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
– Henry A. Kissinger

Presidents’ Day – February 17

“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil” 
– President James A. Garfield

“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.”
– President George H.W. Bush

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt

“You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people’s souls and thoughts. Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.”
–President Herbert Hoover

Random Acts of Kindness Day – February 17

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
– Abigail Van Buren

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato

Quiet Day – February 25

“Silence is a source of great strength.”
– Lao Tzu

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Ram Dass

“Silence is the sanctuary of the soul.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“The most profound statements are often said in silence.”
– Lynn Johnston

Black History Month

“Freedom is never given; it is won”
– A. Philip Randolph

“The time is always right to do what is right”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression”
– W.E.B. Du Bois

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

American Heart Month

“Someone in the United States dies of a heart attack every 39 seconds. Heart attacks remain one of the most visible forms of heart disease, affecting 800,000 people in the U.S. every year.”
– American Heart Association

International Friendship Month

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
–Bill Watterson

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius

“The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elizabeth Foley

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish proverb

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton

Just for Fun – Signage

Lawn sign – “The fastest land mammal is a toddler who’s been asked what’s in their mouth.”
Church signage – “Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Happy hour here every Sunday.”
Store sign – “Children left unattended will be given a Red Bull and a free puppy.”
School sign – “School starts Sept. 4 – Resistance is futile.”
Door sign – “PUSH to open. If this does not work, pull. If both do not work, try the actual entrance around the corner.”
No Parking sign – “The last car that parked here is still missing.”

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