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Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull



Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~John Ciardi



Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henry Youngman



Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals. ~Author Unknown



I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern



And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ~Luke 12:19



What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley



If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ~Thomas Hardy



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535 Later never exists. ~Author Unknown



It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete



Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. ~Alan Kay



When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb



If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. ~Righteous Brothers, "Rock & Roll Heaven"



If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt



From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened. ~Helen E. Haines



I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall