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The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne



None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mahatma Gandhi



There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement



I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck



Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838



Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005



Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways. ~Marlen E. Pew



The wise still seek Him. ~Author Unknown



When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing



We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.... When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge provided for us by a Pacific Islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs, we are beholden to more than half the world. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~Tim McMahon



I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ~Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)



There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. ~Clarence Darrow, 1936



Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. ~Henry David Thoreau



Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking. ~Steve Allen



May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~Edward Abbey



The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Integrity has no need of rules. ~Albert Camus



You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda