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"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.//Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)"
,"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.//Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)"
,"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.//Alice May Brock, author (b. 1941)"
,"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.//Faith Baldwin, novelist (1893-1978)"
,"Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.//Johann Peter Eckermann, poet (1792-1854)"
,"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.//-Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)"
,"The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate//Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (1715-1747)"
,"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.//Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)"
,"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. //Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)"
,"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.//Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)"
,"I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.//Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)"
,"The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry//Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)"
,"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor//George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)"
,"It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey//Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)"
,"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.//M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)"
,"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.//James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)"
,"My greatest skill has been to want but little.//Henry David Thoreau,naturalist and author (1817-1862)"
,"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. //Peyton C. March, general (1864-1955)"
,"This above all: to thine own self be true, \ And it must follow, as the night the day, \ Thou canst not then be false to any man.//William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616)"
,"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them- who were above such trifling.//Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)"
,"Be regular and orderly in your life--so that you may be wild and original in your work.//Gustave Flaubert"
,"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.//Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)"
,"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.//Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (1601-1658)"
,"By eating refined food, we're keeping ourselves on another kind of treadmill: we work harder at our jobs to pay the advertisers who entice us to buy their 'easy foods' that cost more than the real foods and have fewer nutrients, so we can pay our doctors to keep us healthy because we haven't been giving our bodies the nutrients we need.//Janet Luhrs"
,"The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.//Carlo Dossi, author and diplomat (1849-1910)"
,"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard//George Christopher Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)"
,"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion//-Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S. (1809-1865)"
,"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.//William James, psychologist (1842-1910)"
,"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.//Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)"
,"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population. //Paul Rusesabagina, humanitarian (b. 1954)"
,"To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson.//Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)"
,"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.//Martin Luther King, Jr."
,"Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.//Nicholas Sparks, author (1965- )"
,"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.//Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)"
,"There are only two ways to live your life... One as though nothing is a miracle... the other is as though everything is a miracle.//Albert Einstein"
,"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.//Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)"
,"To freely bloom - that is my definition of success//Gerry Spence, lawyer (b. 1929)"
,"Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.//Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (b. 1948)"
,"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed ? and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.//H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)"
,"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! //Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)"
,"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.//Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)"
,"Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.//Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)"
,"Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction//Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)"
,"It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.//Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)"
,"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.//Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)"
,"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.//St. Augustine (354-430)"
,"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day//Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)"
,"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.//Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)"
,"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.//Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)"
,"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.//Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)"
,"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, -- as that a sentence must never end with a participle, -- and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think -- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.//Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)"
,"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only  temporary; the evil it does is permanent.//Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)"
,"A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation.//James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888)"
,"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul ? the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.//Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)"
,"Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.//Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)"
,"That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.//James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)"
,"Genius is eternal patience.//Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter,architect, and poet (1475-1564)"
,"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.//-Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)"
,"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.//Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and author (1799-1888)"
,"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.//Colette, author (1873-1954)"
,"The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work.//Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)"
,"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.//George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)"
,"Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.//Thomas Merton, writer (1915-1968)"
,"The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work.//Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)"
,"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.//Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)"
,"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.//Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273) "
,"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.//Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892) "
,"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.//John Balguy"
,"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.//Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) "
,"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.//Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)"
,"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.//Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor and writer (1909-2005) "
,"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.//Socrates (469?-399 B.C.) "
,"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.//Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "
,"Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even.//Franklin P. Jones"
,"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)"
,"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.//Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) "
,"In death the many become one; in life the one become many.//Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) "
,"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.//Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910) "
,"Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.//Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) "
,"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.//Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977) "
,"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.//Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968) "
,"An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.//Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- ) "
,"I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.//E.B. White, writer (1899-1985) "
,"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.//Letitia E. Landon, author (1802-1838) "
,"Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste ... Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.//John Ross"
,"What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.//George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) "
,"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.//Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )"
,"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.//Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) "
,"What I stand for is what I stand on.//Wendell Berry, farmer, author (1934- ) "
,"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.//Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997) "
,"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.//Germain G. Glien"
,"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.//Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)"
,"True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.//Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-)"
,"Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.//Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)"
,"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.//Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)"
,"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.//John Wooden, sports coach (1910- ) "
,"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.//Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)"
,"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.//Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)"
,"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.//Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)"
,"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.//Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973) "
,"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.//Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994) "
,"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.//George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) "
,"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.//Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) "
,"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.//Roger Miller, musician (1936-1992) "
,"My greatest skill has been to want but little.//Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) "
,"He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.//John Ray, naturalist (1627-1705) "
,"The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.//Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) "
,"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. –Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922) "
,"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.//James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891) "
,"Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal that has the true religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.//Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) "
,"The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) "
,"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.//T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965) "
,"To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.//Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- ) "
,"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.//Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) "
,"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.//Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) "
,"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.//Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935) "
,"He who binds to himself a joy, / Does the winged life destroy; / He who kisses the joy as it flies, / Lives in Eternity's sun rise.//William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827) "
,"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.//Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)"
,"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.//Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864) "
,"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.//Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952) "
,"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.//Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "
,"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.//William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994) "
,"Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.//Polybius, historian (c. 205-123 BCE) "
,"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.//Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) "
,"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.//Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962) "
,"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. –John Keats, poet (1795-1821) "
,"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.//Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) "
,"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.//Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- ) "
,"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.//Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945) "
,"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.//Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- ) "
,"News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.//Bill Moyers, journalist (1934- ) "
,"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.//E.B. White, writer (1899-1985) "
,"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.//Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- ) "
,"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. –Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian (1892-1982) "
,"There is no coming to consciousness without pain.//Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961) "
,"The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straight-forward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish. It is direct and free.//Milton H. Erikson, psychiatrist (1901-1980) "
,"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.//Pearl S. Buck, novelist, Nobel Laureate (1892-1973) "
,"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.//Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965) "
,"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.//Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- ) "
,"The further one grows spiritually, the more and more people one loves and the fewer and fewer people one likes.//Gale D. Webbe, clergyman and author (1909-2000) "
,"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.//Robert Brault"
,"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.//John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) "
,"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.//Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989) "
,"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.//Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896) "
,"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.//Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) "
,"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.//William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939) "
,"You will find relief from vain fancies if you do every act in life as though it were your last.//Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180) "
,"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.//Colette, writer (1873-1954) "
,"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.//Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906) "
,"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.//Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) "
,"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.//Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965) "
,"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.//Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650) "
,"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.//Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998) "
,"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.//Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978) "
,"Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.//Honore De Balzac, novelist (1799-1850) "
,"There are years that ask questions and years that answer.//Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer (1891-1960) "
,"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.//Richard Bach, writer (1936- ) "
,"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.//James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)"
,"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.//Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650) "
,"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- / The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.//Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886) "
,"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.//Stephen King, novelist (1947- ) "
,"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.//Joseph Roux, priest and writer (1834-1886) "
, "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.//Moshe Dayan, military leader and politician (1915-1981) "
,"I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.//Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957) "
,"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.//Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and writer (1906-1945) "
,"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.//William Strunk and E.B. White, authors of The Elements of Style"
,"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.//Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946) "
,"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others.//Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) "
,"Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.//Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960) "
,"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.//Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680) "
, "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.//Stephen Swid, executive (b. 1941) "
,"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.//Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)"
,"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.//Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)"
, "Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.//John Milton, poet (1608-1674)" 
, "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.//Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright (1859-1927)"
, "To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.//E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)"
 
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