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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures. ~Robert Penn Warren



Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers



If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? ~Richard Bach



Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ~Ian McHarg



Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ~George Santayana, "The Irony of Liberalism"



A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ~Jack Benny



Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~James Russell Lowell



Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"



History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~Joseph Heller, Good as Gold



In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ~Christopher Morley



The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. ~Robert Lynd



A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb



God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensees



Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba



I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys