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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. ~David Lloyd George



When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. ~Eda LeShan



War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill



People "died" all the time.... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions - decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out... you always knew when you made a decision against life.... The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and dead. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life



God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922



Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. ~Author Unknown



I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln



Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown



Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith



Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams, 1990



Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb



If you aren't crashing, you aren't skiing. ~Author Unknown



Grandma quilts have love in every stitch. ~Author Unknown



If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise? ~Author Unknown



Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield



There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith



Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. ~Roul Turley



The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks



When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ~Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics"