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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton



Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown



Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz



History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors



If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau



When a child is born, so are grandmothers. ~Judith Levy



Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ~Philip Melanchthen



You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi



Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair



Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith



The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. ~Author Unknown



Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971



Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. ~Gerald Barzan



Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. ~William Menninger



Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~Thomas Drummond



If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner



Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer. ~Charles Buxton Going



But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce



Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt