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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. ~Robinson Jeffers



If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr.



True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry



I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7



You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. ~David Packard



A hug is the shortest distance between friends. ~Author Unknown A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. ~Author Unknown



The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton



It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~Mark Twain



A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! ~Dave Beard



It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. ~Paddy Chayevsky



Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary



In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ~Sydney Smith



A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~George Bernard Shaw



Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer



Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. ~Fletcher Knebel



I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy. ~Anonymous, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel



We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem