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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw



The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket



When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller



For me, mowing the lawn with a very loud gas-powered mower is the best time for karaoke. And I'm sure my neighbors would agree. ~Author Unknown



Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey



A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman



Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown



Women.... Who made 'em? God must have been a... genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever? ~Bo Goldman, "The Start of an Education," made popular by the movie Scent of a Woman



Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~Margaret Thatcher



We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James



Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. ~Emily Post



Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital... the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. ~Amory Lovins



The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honore de Balzac



Nature and silence go better together. ~Astrid Alauda



Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White



If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov