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Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown



Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ~Alan C. Kay



Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin



True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach



It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop



The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann von Goethe



What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis



Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work. ~Author Unknown



As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes



Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960



How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880



If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ~Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury



Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood



Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~Matthew Arnold



What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1822



Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie



Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod



You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. ~Polish Proverb



Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ~H.L. Mencken