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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough



It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. ~The Sickness Unto Death



Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. ~J.K. Rowling, "Magic is Might," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~John Oliver Hobbes



People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates



The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ~Robert Farrar Capon, "Being Let Go," New York Times, 5 August 1984 The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert



The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart



Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence. ~Gabrielle Palmer



People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee, Casuals of the Sea, 1916



Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~Al McGuire



Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46



All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them. ~Isabel Hickey



But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown



If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt



If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky