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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~Voltaire



A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. ~J.M. Barrie, Little Minister



Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek



The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage



In dog years, I'm dead. ~Author Unknown



Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia



He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~Arabian Proverb



If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison



Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson



Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ~Marston Bates



It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully



Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge



Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill



We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton



Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni



Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden, They Call Me Coach



If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961



People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. ~Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794