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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed



The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis



You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman



The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ~P.J. O'Rourke



"Independence"... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912



Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets



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The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law



I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana



It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb



Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ~Aristotle



In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant "Agent Orange" are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match, No. 79



We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker



For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness. ~Herbert Luthy



Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7



How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? ~Samuel Johnson How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827