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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell



Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~Aldous Huxley



If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ~Will Rogers



Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~William Blake



As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! ~William James



Sometimes we're all hypocrites. ~Frank Renzulli, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, and David Chase, The Sopranos, "Bust Out," original airdate 19 March 2000, spoken by the character Meadow Soprano



A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. ~Oscar Wilde



My songs are just little letters to me. ~Ani Difranco



I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. ~Bill Clinton



Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~Joseph Addison



God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. ~Cherishe Archer



The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. ~Deepak Chopra



Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky



The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal



The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty



We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York



Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with? ~Author Unknown



My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. ~Lonzo Idolswine