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The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. ~Roy Blount, Jr.


I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985


Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson


An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played Carnegie Hall. ~Oscar Levant


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane


For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. ~Paul Clitheroe


I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter


Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown


Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. ~Emily Saliers, "Center Stage," Indigo Girls, 1989


What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang


Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. ~Fay Weldon


Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll


Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay


Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill


Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown