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It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ~Malcolm X



The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler



It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot



Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker



The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda



Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton



Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27



Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet



The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley



Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg



Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771



I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? ~Edward Giobbi



People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb



If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. ~Jean Kerr



Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI



The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan



I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein



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



The geography of my heart has hills of desire and valleys and meadows of love - for both men and women - a single day's trek passes through it all. ~Agave Powers