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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol. I, book II, chapter 1



The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker



Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis



History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human because, as an idea, it is man's creation, challenging him to transcend the limits of information about himself and to discover what he is by finding meaning in what he has done. In short, it is man's commentary on man. ~John Barker, The Superhistorians



Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford



Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson



Quote A: �What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.� ~Bodie Thoene



Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense



You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. ~Earl Wilson



Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch



It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. ~Author Unknown



Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20



Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon



Silence is a text easy to misread. ~A.A. Attanasio



Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. ~Paul Carvel



Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~E.P. Whipple



I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton



One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston