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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown


The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie, L'Homme Machine


Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939


We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was. ~Bernard Malamud


To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~Author Unknown


A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~S.N. Behrman


W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like "epixoriambikos." Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ~Ambrose Bierce


The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear. ~Aung San Suu Kyi


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein


Doubt is healthy. It tests one's convictions. ~From the movie Haunted


Hear your heart. Heart your health. ~Faith Seehill


If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968


Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)


It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown


Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum


Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics


Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~Charles Dickens