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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings



If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown



God and other artists are always a little obscure. ~Oscar Wilde



In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971



In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. ~Benjamin Franklin



Perhaps beneath the scoundrel that I am, there lies a misled poet? Perhaps a mystifier who enjoys mystifying himself? ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw



Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ~Sidney Lumet



An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker



Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. ~Terri Guillemets



Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. ~Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player



If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ~Mark Twain



If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert



Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather



Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore Quasimodo



Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960