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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ~Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents



Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp



My body and spirit are the only things that truly belong to me. ~Carrie Latet



I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron



I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson



The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ~Marshall McLuhan



But I was not, to use the theological phrase, receptive. The great obstacle to the influx of grace was my own perfect happiness, and it is well known that God takes no thought for the happy, any more than He does for birds and puppies, perhaps realizing they have no need of Him and mercifully letting them alone. ~John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, 1970



When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee



To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell



Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce



The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying



I am a nutritional overachiever. ~Author Unknown



Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox



The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross



When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. ~Edward Abbey



I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ~Anita Loos