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Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~Terri Guillemets



The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962



The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~Confucius



If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. ~Joseph Farrell



I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul. ~Jeb Dickerson, April 25, 2009 on Twitter (@JebDickerson), www.howtomatter.com



America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud



Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H.L. Mencken



Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783



Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard



Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ~Christopher Morley



Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert



We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. ~Henry David Thoreau



Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets



Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin



I'm trying to eat better. And, I do feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel hungry. ~Carrie Latet



A man�s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb



To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown