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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung



We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968



No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~John Milton



What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter



Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau



I'll bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cavemen, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. ~Jack Handey



The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown



If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library? ~Lily Tomlin



Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy



A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ~Clare Whiting



Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays



A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~W. Somerset Maugham



He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson



Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



Much of your pain is self-chosen. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ~Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter



Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~George Bernard Shaw