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Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda



Congratulations: Babies Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov



All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens



Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther



If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ~Rig Veda



"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. ~Emma Goldman



A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~Winston Churchill



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994



It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery



Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White



Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ~Robert Green Ingersoll



I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. ~Jesse Owens



When the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all.



My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. ~Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889



I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. ~Lord Chesterfield



I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. ~Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis



Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~Sydney Smith



Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings