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Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last. ~Charles de Gaulle



Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein



Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather



Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978



It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~Charles Peirce



To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland



My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. ~Edmund Burke



We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins



I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~Winston Churchill



I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies



No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey



We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown



When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There's nothing wrong with me a little ice cream won't fix. ~Author Unknown



Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street. ~Author Unknown



I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav Nijinsky