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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats



Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. ~Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz



He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb



Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett



A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. ~Carl G. Jung



Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911



Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate



Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage



I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense



Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com



I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau



I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. ~Lin Yutang



Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto



Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ~George Allen



The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan



Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~Mark Twain



A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown



All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. ~Walter B. Wriston



Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~Rebecca West