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A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. ~John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic



Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett



I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams



Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson



Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolph Monod



Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View



America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. ~Aurora Raigne



An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker



In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ~Peter Alexander Ustinov



Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945



Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"



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



Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers



Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle



A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan



I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. ~Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967



The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez, @sapphiremoon13



Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~Charles Francis Adams