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Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"



It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary



With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer



The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ~Potter Stewart



Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979



History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan



I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Louis



How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892



I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. ~Lord Chesterfield



Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale



There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne



You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary



The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. ~Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores



The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. ~Thomas Carlyle



You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau



You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike. ~Paul Teutul, Sr., American Chopper, "Billy Joel"



Please don't feed the dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown