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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. ~Jack Horner, on the eighty years between Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb, in Time, 26 April 1993



The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. ~Shigeo Shingo



Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets



If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets



Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken



The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life� the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker



A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather



Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin



Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse



You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp



It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. ~Adlai Stevenson



The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. ~Wilma Scott Heide



Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell



When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! ~Grey Livingston



I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau



But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ~Galatians 5:22, 23



You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski



In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson