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Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman


If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ~Edmund Wilson


Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


The historian lays humanity on the couch. ~Lynn White, Jr.


Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo


When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. ~Ray Kroc


It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown


Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis


People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer


There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright


When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob Hope


There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. ~Katharine Whitehorn


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~Voltaire


I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974


Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens


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Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827