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This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. ~Jane Grigson



Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy



My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952



When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose? ~Author Unknown



When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown



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



Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)



No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987



Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire



Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack



There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Astrid Alauda



The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadere of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising - only these stand a chance. ~Henry James



The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams



For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. ~Louise Slaughter For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ~Psalms 122:8



Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932



Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)



Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith