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Television is simply automated day-dreaming. ~Lee Lovinger



Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical



In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society



When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841



If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ~Jimmy Connors, on experience



National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May



Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? ~Richard Fleischer



You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish



Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown



Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor



I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ~Charles Baudelaire



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams



I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln



Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935



Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~Charlie McCarthy



And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams



Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne