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Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus. ~Martin H. Fischer



Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? ~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree



Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis



Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me. ~Amanda Vail



Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace



It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade



Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ~Author Unknown



Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley



Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt



The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ~John Locke, 16 May 1699



A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ~Author Unknown



Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. ~William Arthur Ward



Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets



Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown



We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald



And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. ~Homer, Iliad



Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~Lewis Carroll



The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you're off it. ~Jackie Gleason



Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze