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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark


No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting


We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. ~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897


With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. ~Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs


For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard


I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony


Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine


When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human


Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh


To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)


For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn


In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9


Aphorism: a short, concise statement of a principle or a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment. According to James Geary in The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, the five laws of aphorisms are: it must be brief, it must be definitive, it must be personal, it must have a twist, and it must be philosophical. Example: "Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see." ~Mark Twain


Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee


The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~Josh Billings


Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960