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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~Albert Einstein



Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~Daniel Defoe



The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy



His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men. ~London Spectator



You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard



The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. ~Mary Wollstonecraft



Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle



The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. ~Henry Clay



A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938



The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright



My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ~Joan Rivers



Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless. ~Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth



The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart



I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown



He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H.L. Mencken