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God gave the angels wings, and he gave humans chocolate. ~Author Unknown



The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action



Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends. ~Author Unknown



It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell



Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle



Waste is a tax on the whole people. ~Albert W. Atwood



God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. ~Author Unknown



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



Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. ~Attributed to Edward Plantagenet



God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare



Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown



Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great



After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6? of marriage! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. ~Mark Epstein



Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. ~Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963