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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979



History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey



Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham



We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims



Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. ~Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death



More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. ~Rudyard Kipling



We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain



Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. ~John Hardwick



I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ~Gary Hart



You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~Abraham Lincoln



Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett



I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850



I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong



I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle



The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain



Sex.... It's just like cuddling - only damper. ~Coupling, "Unconditional Sex," original airdate 7 October 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Jeff



Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing... he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised. ~Author Unknown



Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu