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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



Nature is the art of God. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635



There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~Henry Ford



Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844



He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack



Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub. ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines



Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese



If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley



Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994



The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. ~Author Unknown



The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics



What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. ~Thomas Carlyle



Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854



Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy



Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz



Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com