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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. ~Author Unknown



Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. ~George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896



The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf



Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



A great library contains the diary of the human race. ~George Mercer Dawson



I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold



Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender



Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. ~Author Unknown



Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram - lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull - he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins - that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path - he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales - happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep. ~Herman Melville



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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ~Jesse Jackson



A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ~Andre Gide



The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ~G.K. Chesterton



There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. ~Ben Hecht



It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer



Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb



Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.