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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton



Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Browne



Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. ~Benjamin Franklin



Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella



When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber



Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~Butch Hancock



There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. ~Author Unknown



If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. ~Cornel West, "Nihilism in America," Race Matters, 1993



God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. ~Author Unknown



England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley



Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund Burke



No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown



Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. ~Bertrand Russell



An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908



Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem. ~Jane Thomas Noland



Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin