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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ~Woodrow Wilson


Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain


Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly


You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ~Charles Kuralt


Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold


If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain


Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown


Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~John Muir


Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864


Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


For the night shows stars and women in a better light. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius


If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott


There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson


Only in death are we no longer part of Project Mayhem. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 28


Children are for people who can't have dogs. ~Author Unknown