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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859


Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin


I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974


The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda


Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone. ~Vince Hemingson


Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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


If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright


Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will


Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916


Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896


Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. ~Lee Loevinger


The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~Niccolo Machiavelli


If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)


I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~George Carlin


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston


Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown


I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, 1981