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May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956



Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon



Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost



Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. ~Val Saintsbury



I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can't even see a difference. ~Author Unknown



One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. ~John Updike



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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein



Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends. ~Author Unknown



Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz



Idiom: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up, i.e. cannot be translated literally. Examples: "under the weather," "kick the bucket."



Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley



Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L," Aphorisms



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ~Proverbs 26:27



Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. ~Martin H. Fischer



Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ~Mason Cooley



One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill