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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel Johnson



Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"



We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ~D.H. Lawrence



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. ~Bud Flanagan



Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown



Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966



Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ~Fred Allen



The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work. ~William H. Masters



A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961



Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. ~Christopher Andrea



Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. ~Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990



Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown



Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey



I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. ~Karl Lagerfeld



Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. ~Phyllis Diller



It proves nothing. Must things be proved in order to be painful or pleasant? They need only be felt. ~"The Manuscript"



I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. ~Franklin Knight Lane