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Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ~Charles DeLint



Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer



In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ~Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004 Jul 27



Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind



So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love



I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall



Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss



Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ~Jean Asper McIntosh



On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton



Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. ~Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies, 1907



It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~Helen Keller



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ~Robert Bosch



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short



Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley



Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923