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If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson



A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism. ~Donald Morgan



You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. ~Carrie Latet



An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. ~Robert Brault



These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet



What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. ~Henry Fielding



A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson



We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown



A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. ~Arthur Daley



Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule



Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord! ~Author Unknown



There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ~Boy George



All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926



If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. ~Saying



New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain



Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. ~J.K. Rowling



Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. ~Author Unknown



My strength is made perfect in weakness. ~II Corinthians



There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression