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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. ~John Dewey, Characters and Events
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes. ~Bhagavad Gita
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. ~Steven Wright
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~Somerset Maugham
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. ~Henry S. Haskins
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~Abraham Lincoln
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. ~Frederick Alexander Lindemann
Fatigue is the best pillow. ~Benjamin Franklin
Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet
The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ~Hugo Black
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. ~Oscar Holmolka
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