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When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids. ~Chuck Mills



Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834



No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974



Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~Colonel Potter



A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ~Henry Fielding



If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. ~Martin H. Fischer



No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. ~Publilius Syrus



Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck



The historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. ~Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History



Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller



He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules! ~Earl Butz, referring to the Pope's stricture against contraception



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens



Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown



A family is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown



Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach



After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan



Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~Herbert Hoover, attributed



Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ~Calvin Coolidge