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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.: Christina Baldwin
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.: Unknown
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.: Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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