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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb



Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~Norman McLaren If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. ~John Ruskin



We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ~Vince Lombardi



Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein



Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ~Josh Billings



When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret



Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~Charlie McCarthy



Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. ~Daniel Defoe



I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman



A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism



There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ~Blaise Pascal



Of those who say nothing, few are silent. ~Thomas Neiel



My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~Rita Mae Brown



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ~Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter



Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus



What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman