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Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown


To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot


Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~Jonathan Swift


We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6


He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. ~Proverbs 17:27


Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular - with some justification, unfortunately - consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce. ~Lloyd Alexander


There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb


The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman


How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ~George Plimpton


I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ~Ulysses S. Grant


Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ~Ben Hecht


No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown


Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. ~Josephine Hart


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~J. Frank Dobie


If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford