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Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. ~Author Unknown



I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945



For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. ~Loring A. Schuler



In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips. ~Author Unknown



Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd



A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one. ~Author Unknown



In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer



Life, if well lived, is long enough. ~Seneca, De Ira



Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton



Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard



If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil



A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb, as quoted on vanishingtattoo.com



For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990 For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990



History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors



Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown



The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~Bill Gates



Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson