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Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ~Aretaeus



Never eat more than you can lift. ~Miss Piggy



But another thing I know is this - we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can't change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that's what this election is all about. ~Barack Obama, 2008 Sep 18, Espanola, New Mexico



Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown



Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. ~Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay," performed by Rihanna



The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard



The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~Emma Goldman



The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind



Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz



Anything is good if it's made of chocolate. ~Jo Brand



The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845



Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered



There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~Woodie Held



I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~Rebecca West



A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie



Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle. ~Robert Altinger The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable. ~Samantha Armstrong