From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. ~Peter Williams
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday. ~George Bernard Shaw I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~Jim Davis
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. ~Margaret Bonnano
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ~Andre Gide
Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about. ~Beverly Mickins
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton
The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. ~Ellen Glasgow
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. ~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. ~Bob Hope
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~Charlotte Whitton
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