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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White



The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~William Gibson



You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette



Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment. ~Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996



Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ~Thomas William Parsons



I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress?" ~Karen Ripley



The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. ~A.C. Van Cherub



If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus



One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb



The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright



Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. ~Pablo Picasso



You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. ~Alexander Pope



Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ~Author Unknown



Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~Margaret Mead



Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce



Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau



Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton