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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer



Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades. ~Richard Evans



The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell



Of course abortion isn't right. But it is even less right to bring unwanted children into lifelong suffering and to strip women of their choice. Making abortion illegal is not the way to prevent it. There is a much larger picture that starts with much deeper roots. ~Anonymous



Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Working without safety is a dead-end job. ~Author Unknown



When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977



Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~Martin H. Fischer



Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. ~Owen Laughlin



We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne



Censorship offends me. ~Author Unknown



No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ~H.L. Mencken



As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ~Proverbs 25:25



When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso



When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear



What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785



Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot



He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown



A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ~Homer