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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. ~Mark Twain, about the Devil



I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner



It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961



He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb



Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need



Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng



Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~St Francis de Sales



I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander



We are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg



At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. ~Marshall B. Rosenberg



Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won. ~Author Unknown



Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown



But they are useless. They can only give you answers. ~Pablo Picasso, about computers



Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. ~Anna Quindlen