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"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life." - Christopher Morley

"'Tis the good reader that makes the good book." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every moment of life is a step towards death." - Corneille

"If I must die I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms." - Shakespeare

"The greatest Risk is not taking one." - Unknown

"Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you know." - Unknown

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know." - Cicero

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." - Aristotle

"Nothing is to be feared but fear." - Bacon

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - Shakespeare

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power." - Colton

"He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, can never rise to fight again." - Goldsmith

"A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage." - Napoleon

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Disraeli

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies." - Aristotle

"A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein

"Courage is fire, bullying is smoke." - Benjamin Disraeli

"It is truly said: it does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to decide what to do." - Chow Ching

"He who commands the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past." - George Orwell

"Death is more universal then life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives." - A. Sachs

"Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled, and a pain that is shared is divided." - Ruckett

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in it's defense." - Mark Overby

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia

"It may be those who do most, dream most." - Stephen Lealock

"If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed--and it's slower." - Glenn Ford

"Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything." - Blaise Pascal

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." - Josh Billings

"Art is not a thing; it's a way." - Elbert Hubbard

"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it." - Robert Motherwell

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have a greatness thrust upon them." - Shakespeare

"The world is an equal opportunity employer. Anyone can work to make it better." - Unknown

"People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes." - Unknown

"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." - Unknown

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

"The impossible is often the untried." - Jim Goodwin

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discover themselves than by those found by others." - Blaise Pascal

"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." - Thomas Hardy

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand." - Saint Augustine

"The time to relax is when you don't have any time for it." - Sydney J. Harris

"You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." - John J. Plomp

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

"The future is hidden even from the men who made it." - Anatole France

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas

"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again." - Unknown

"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best." - HJB

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." - Horace Walpole

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand." - Blaise Pascal

"Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The waking have one world in common. Sleepers have each a private world of their own." - Unknown

"The best way to predict the future... is to make it." - Unknown

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Unknown

"Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... integrity is taking it." - Unknown

"A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar." - Lloyd Alexander

"Sometimes the most beautiful things in world are the most wild or unexpected." - Leah Holland

"Talking comes by nature... silence, by wisdom." - Shrena Worrick

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted..." - Aesop

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a kings loss of a crown are events of the same size..." - Mark Twain

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody" - Mark Twain

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."- Helen Keller

"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink!" - Shonry Suzuki Roshi

"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking." - Unknown

"Things that look bad today will look better tomorrow." - Unknown

"Not everything that happens we can control, but we can always choose the way we react." - Unknown

"Not one shred of evidence exists to support the notion that life is serious." - Unknown

"Be wary of what you say, for it could affect many more people than just yourself." - Unknown

"There are 2 kinds of light: the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures." - Unknown

"Friends will be with you through the darkest times, and be with you through the brightest light." - Unknown

"My power is my mind and my mind is my power." - Hajime Kanzak

"Not knowing what the dawn brings, I open every door." - Emily Dickenson

"You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're always the same." - Unknown

"Anywhere but here, with anyone but you." - Harlan Ellison

"Who am we, anyway?" - The Firesign Theatre

"If you try to fail, and succeed, what have you really done?" - George Carlin

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - GrouchoMarx

"The Irish are only at peace when they are fighting." - Unknown

"Suppose you're an idiot, and suppose you're a member of congress... but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

"The difference between truth and fiction is: fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain

"Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a single night. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Prachett

"The trick to flying, is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss." - Douglas Adams

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life--so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." - Matt Cartmill

"God gave us two ears, and one mouth, to listen more than we speak." - Unknown

"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill

"The only completely consistent people are the dead." - Aldous Huxley

"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live." - Victor Hugo

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature." - Marcus Aurellus Antonius

"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." - Albert Einstein

"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." - Albert Einstein

"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones." - Albert Einstein

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." - William Shakespeare

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." - Jean Cocteau

"But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?" - William Shakespeare

"I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper. Cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. No one lives forever." - Danny Elfman

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." - Nietzsche

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever." - Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

"Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." - Francis Bacon

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." - Steward Alsop

"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable." - Bhagavad Gita

"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead." - Jimmy Buffet

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - Henry Van Dyke

"The higher you raise the bar of success, the easier it is to sneak under." - Cristy

"He who can deceive others is a good liar. He who can deceive himself is a better liar." - Unknown

"You know that you are about to fight the main bad guy when... the red dragon that you're fighting turns around, looks at you and says '$h!t, I'm outta here!!!" - Cody

"What is the meaning of life, if you can't live your own life by your own words?" - Karya

"Not everyone is given a life, but all are given a death." - Unknown

"Nothing can change you but you." - Joshua Guallett

"Don't wish for eternal life, for all it will bring you is death; not in the flesh but in the soul. The soul that cries out for others." - Unknown

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake." - Marie Beyon Ray

"There are two ways to live life: one as though nothing is a miracle and the other as though everything is." - Einstein

"If a man is to be called a street sweeper, he should sweep as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music, or as Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.'" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Death is the ultimate fairness, everyone shares it." - Unknown

"One only dies when he stops living." - Unknown

"If you do not try you will never know!" - Unknown

"Life is like a wild mustang, either you ride it, or it rides you." - Unknown

"To me, there is no such word as impossible. You can do anything if you set your mind to it." - Unknown

"You should never regret anything that you do. No matter what transpires, you can always learn from it." - Unknown

"The good deeds you do today might be forgotten tomorrow. Do them anyways." - Mother Theresa

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics. I assure you, mine are still greater." - Einstein

"Life is to death, as sorrow is to hope, you must learn to except both to get any joy." - Unknown

"The utopia or perfection we are striving to attain is impossible to realize or create because our boundaries are too large. We can only reach perfection by limiting these boundaries, therefore rendering us ignorant." - Alexi Boutonnet

"Life and Death are the two contrasting rules of life. One starts, and the Other ends." - Unknown

"The greatest risk comes with victory." - SLAYR

"Life isn't fair because challenges aren't fair. And after all, life is a challenge." - Heather McCain

"It's easy to show your emotions. That's why it's so easy to get hurt." - Megan Miller

"People tell me I should live a little. How can I when I've been dead for so long?" - Megan Miller

"It is one thing to live proudly, but yet another to die proudly." - Unknown

"Things take time, be patient and work hard and you can achieve anything." - Unknown

"Don't pray for a light load, pray for a strong back." - Unknown

"No one can destroy the human spirit; for if you are breathing, you can dream." - Robert Frost

"I was once a great swinger of dances, as I dream of still being one, I grew old but my wisdom will not replace the innocence of youth, yet innocence cannot replace wisdom either." - Michelle McLean Soper

"There is no joy without pain, for without pain, joy has no meaning." - Joshua Guallett

"Being alone is a way of living." - Unknown

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in there eyes and the echo of ourselves in their works." - Joshua Guallett

"I have always heard innocence was only for the young, but no it is only the way we think that really changes." - Joshua Guallett

"If at first you don't succeed, maybe you're better at failing." - Symon Elfman

"It's funny until someone gets hurt, then it's funnier." - Symon Elfman

"The fear of something greater than your original fear can prove to be quite useful." - Unknown

"Walk with the master, learn from the master, beat the master become the master." - Unknown

"Love is... like a diamond! It'll take one hell of a beating before it breaks!" - Cory W.

"Love will not always bitter." - Ann Lowe

"Only the dead see the end of war." - Plato

"Obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." - Unknown

"If it weren't supposed to hurt, they wouldn't call it a crush." - Unknown

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." - C.C Scott

"Family... a group experience of love and support." - Unknown

"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught." - Winston Churchill

"The older you get, the better you get... unless you're a banana." - Rose Nylund

"The purpose of life is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

"Don't jump too far in life, for you might land in a hole and fall forever." - Plimpp

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"It does not do to dwell on dreams... and forget to live." - Jessica .BW

"You will never truly know what love is, until your heart gets broken." - Unknown

"To be forgotten is worse than death." - Freya Cresent

"Things don't just happen. People make those things happen." - Unknown

"Remember, there is a reason for everything. You may find out what that reason is right away, or maybe ten years later. Or you may never find our what that reason is. But trust me, there is a reason." - Eiko Carol

"The person who won't start because of a fear of failure has failed already." - Unknown.

"A truly great artist is someone who can paint what he feels, not paint what he see's." - Kestin Stewart

"Art is like true beauty. One must look twice before seeing its true presence." - Kestin Stewart

"There is no proof that God exists, only that there are people who believe in miracles." - Kestin Stewart

"A face is like any other. If you punch it. It will hurt." - Kestin Stewart

"No one ever really knows if heaven is real. We'll find out when we die though." - Kestin Stewart

"If you believe that your life is not worth living, then believe that another life is worth living for. " - Kestin Stewart

"A question for all ages. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" For we are always growing." - Kestin Stewart

"Sometimes all it takes is to have faith in yourself, and the certainty that you're doing your best." - Kestin Stewart

"He who knows does not speak, he who speaks does not know." - Symon Elfman

"We use mirrors of crystal to see our faces, we use paintings to see our soul." - Bernard Shaw

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering." - Yoda

"A good fight is one not won but fought at your best." - Unknown

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Death is lighter than a feather, Duty heavier than a mountain." - Robert Jordan

"Some people succeed because they're destined to, most succeed because they're determined to." - Unknown

"War does not determine who is right, just who is left." - Unknown

"Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day." - Bill Gates

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion." - Chinese Proverb

"Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire." - Paul Dietzel

"Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected." - Bruce Lee

"Life is a dream, & it always ends in death." - Unknown

"Technology only works when you don't need it." - William Bowser

"Never fall for love unless its true or you believe it's true, but still remember the one you love could still be a fake." - Unknown

"I close my eyes for a moment, and the moment is gone." - Unknown

"You need wings in order to fly, without them you only descend into Darkness." - Mellissa

"It's not how you die, but how you live that shows your honor." - Unknown

"To know the path is not the same as taking it." - Unknown

"What is learned through the words of man is useless in the afterlife." - Unknown

"He who makes a beast of himself is relieved of the burden of being a man." - Unknown

"When you've reached the end of all the light you know, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen. Either you will have something solid to land on, or you will be taught how to fly!" - Anonymous

"Shake your enemies hand with the left, but don't let him see you draw your knife with the right." - Unknown

"The Catholic Church teaches two very important things. The first is that God is merciful. The second is that we are all going to hell." - David Andrews

"If looks could kill, humanity would cease to exist." - Ashley J. Barnett

"I wonder what the world would be like without hypothetical questions." - Unknown

"I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. I'm so far behind now, that at this rate, I'll never die." - Unknown

"It's not so much that I care about what you're doing, but the idiotic way you're doing it." - Vincent Valentine

"To be a true champion, you must be the best. If you aren't, pretend you are." - Muhammad Ali

"Nightmares are only disguises of your true problems in the real world." - Jeremiah P.

"Life is but a passing dream, but the death that follows is eternal." - Seymore

"You're not hideous when others say so. You're hideous when you say so." - Sylvia Kim

"There are no stupid question, only stupid people." - DeLeon

"You could never understand the humiliation that I have gone through. The burden of having to be the best, of having to be worthy." - Dauragon C. Mikado

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"Right and wrong are not what separate us from our enemies. It is our different standpoints, our perspectives, that separate us." - Squall Leonheart

"Failure to plan, is planning to fail." - Mr. Kenyon Patterson

"Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten--ten of your own." - Unknown

"The important time to keep trying is when you reach the point where the average person would quit." - Unknown

"When a man says he will do this or that tomorrow, ask what he did yesterday." - Unknown

"Everybody is liable to make mistakes, but fools practice them." - Unknown

"To worry about what we can't help is useless; to worry about what we can help is stupid." - Unknown

"Never be guilty of judging a man's actions until you know his motives." - Unknown

"To know things as they are is better then to believe things as they seem." - Unknown

"He who will not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." - Unknown

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Unknown

"Somewhere in the world there's somebody better than me... But I haven't met him yet." - Unknown

"If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving you the wrong impression." - Unknown

"No matter how small your vocabulary is, it's still big enough to let you say something you'll later regret." - Unknown

"We can often do more for other people by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs." - Unknown

"You're wrong if you think the best way to solve a problem is to talk it to death." - Unknown

"You may not be too wise, but if you manage to keep your mouth shut you can fool a lot of people." - Unknown

"A man with a sense of humor doesn't make a joke out of life; he merely recognizes the ones that are there." - Unknown

"Don't take life too seriously. You're not getting out alive, anyway." - Unknown

"Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?" - Unknown

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Unknown

"If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to." - Unknown

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." - Unknown

"Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?" - Unknown

"Reality is wrong, dreams are for real." - Tupac

"Childhood ends when you realize you're gonna die." - Topdollar

"Once you think all is lost, you're right. So don't think it, and you'll be fine." - Remy

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." - Unknown

"Never argue with idiots. They just drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience." - Unknown

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

"We are not primarily on this earth to see through one another but to see one another through." - Peter De Vries

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time." - Leo Buscaglia

"When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely." - Marcus Aurelius

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Thomas Carlyle

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." - Helen Keller

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create that fact." - William James

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." - Mignon McLaughlin

"Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through." - Viktor Frankl

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are going." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It only hurts when I stop laughing." - Jackie Chan

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pain and suffering are just two of the pathways to wisdom and understanding." - Unknown

"We all have an inner-child... I just keep mine bound and gagged in the cellar." - Chris Z.

"Each dawn brings new light. And each evening new darkness. Every rise of the sun brings new life. And every rise of the moon takes it." - Unknown

"The noble death of a poor man in battle is more beautiful then the plain death of a hero." - Unknown

"You make the decision you think is best for you. But leave me to determine on my own which path to take." - Unknown

"It's when you realize you can't trust anyone that life starts to seem pointless." - Unknown

"Why live if we are going to die eventually anyway? We live to find the answer to that." - Unknown

"People and love both have one thing in common. They both can be deceiving." - Unknown

"It's hard to tell the difference between true love and deception, but not so to tell who your real friends are." - Unknown

"Looks can be deceiving, such as the look of a rose. The flower shows it beautiful while the thorns show its darkness." - Unknown

"People who fear death are wasting their time. People who bring it upon themselves are fools. People who accept it are safe." - Unknown

"Always expect the worse of something. That's the best way to prepare." - Unknown

"Beware your surroundings, you can never be too cautious, for even the loveliest of roses can kill." - Unknown

"We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser." - Jeanette

"You don't marry someone you can live with. You marry the person you cannot live without." - Jeanette

"If you want to catch a butterfly, don't run after it. Instead just sit down, open your hand, & it will rest on your palm. In the same way that's how you find love." - Unknown

"The secret to happiness is to enjoy the present without regretting the past or worrying about the future." - Unknown

"No good deed goes unpunished." - Unknown

"Faith is like the wind. You can't see it, but you can feel it." - Unknown

"To die a virgin is not possible, life will screw you one way or another." - Hamilton

"We are born wet, cold and hungry. Then its outta the frying pan, into the fire kinda thing." - Symon Elfman

"To know ones self is to study ones self in action with another person." - Bruce Lee

"Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end." - Jon Bon Jovi

"In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose." - Funakoshi

"You don't have to prepare for a fight. When it comes, simply forget what you are doing and destroy your enemy." - Archie Ravelo

"Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting 'Gotcha.' It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it." - Douglas Adams

"The problem with this world is that people live like they'll never die, and die like they never lived." - Unknown

"A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way." - Oswald Chambers

"It is easy to condemn a state of things we know nothing about while we make excuses for the condition of things we ourselves are live in." - Oswald Chambers

"Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all." - Oswald Chambers

"Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence." - Oswald Chambers

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." - Unknown

"Logic is nothing more than rearranging the facts to justify your confusions." - Unknown

"Life for most of us is a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected." - Unknown

"We like for a man to say what he thinks--that is, when he agrees with us." - Unknown

"Sometimes a man must protest, not to change the world, but to keep the world from changing him." - Unknown

"All the world is a stage and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed." - Unknown

"I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream." - Leonora Carrington

"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night..." - Carl Jung

"If all else fails, there's always hope, faith and blind luck!" - Unknown

"When I say 'this is near impossible' I'm a pessimist. 'I could get lucky' I'm an optimist. I'm a realist." - Unknown

"Life is like a bird singing. If the bird loses its voice, it can either keep trying to sing, or just stop...What will you choose?" - Amber H.

"A fool sits around all day, memorizing quotes. A wise man reads the quotes, lives, and creates his own" - Sabrina Pyles

"If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face it's a victory." - Old Irish saying

"A person once asked me what two books I would bring with me if I was stranded on a desert island. And I didn't much like the tone in his voice. So I said I'd bring a big plastic inflatable book, and a book called 'how to make oars out of sand.'" - Unknown

"I do not suffer depression, I have simply realized that there is not, nor will there ever be, true peace in the world, and that hate, anger, discrimination, greed, selfishness, pain and sadness, are, and always will be, part of the human heart. People who cannot realize this do not live in the real world, and are doomed to drown in their hopes." - Anonymous

"People are like sausage rolls: they might look nice from the outside, but inside are things that you might be better off not knowing about." - Unknown

"If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?" - Amber

"Why rely on someone else, when you can do it yourself?" - Amber

"Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers." - Unknown

"Sow an action and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Better a fallen star than never a burst of light." - Oscar Wilde

"We must all fear evil men. But there is another type of evil we must fear most of all, and that is the indifference of good men." - Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy)

"If you are content to live in the past, you have no future--and today is the past." - Unknown

"The only dependable thing about the future is uncertainty." - Amarant (from FF9)

"Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side," - Latimer

"Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved." - Whately

"Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong." - Whately

"Leave the past in the past. Don't carry it along to your future. Because the future is now and the past is then. Forget your troubles and get on through life." - Unknown

"A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self..." - Chris Brown

"Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing that bears two seeds: life and death." - James Hurst

"I learned to shield my back and attack from behind." - Orlandu

"History doesn't always repeat itself--sometimes it just screams 'Why don't you listen to what I'm telling you?!?' and lets fly with a club." - Unknown

"Get real close and nudge it with your foot. If it springs up and eats you, I'll know it ain't dead." - Riff

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch

"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying." - Unknown

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car." - Unknown

"On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key." - Unknown

"Guns don't kill people; Mark VII phaser rifles do." - Unknown

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Albert Einstein

"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination." - Garak

"To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer." - Unknown

"Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it." - Unknown

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur

"If anything can go wrong, it will. If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." - Murphy

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." - Unknown

"If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place." - Albert Einstein

"I might not agree to your opinion, but I defend to death your right to express it." - Voltaire

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth." - Chinese Proverb

"Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest" - Arthur Schopenhauer

"The key to a real victory... is to make your enemies think they were wrong to oppose you in the first place..." - Gul Dukat

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct." - Benjamin Franklin

"The last one to leave, please turn off the light at the end of the tunnel." - R. P. Toledo

"We can lick gravity, but the paperwork's a bit tougher." - Werner von Braun

"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"In 200 years every man, woman and child living right now will be dead - so lighten up!" - Unknown

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"It's only a flesh wound." - The Black Knight, Monty Python & The Holy Grail

"It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?" - Lorien, The First One

"If you'll think about it, schools are like the borg: 'Your wishes are irrelevant, your knowledge is irrelevant... from this time forward you will serves us. Resistance is futile.'" - Unknown

"Yea, though I walk through the Shadow of the Valley of Death, I will fear no evil. For I am the meanest sumbitch in the whole damn valley!" - Lance

"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." - Unknown

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein

"Time is what we want most, but alas, what we use worst." - William Penn

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." - Albert Einstein

"Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery." - Democritus, Greek philosopher (460?-370? B.C.)

"No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting." - Murray Kempton

"Heroes occur because someone makes a mistake. We don’t want any heroes today." - United States Army Battalion Commander, Somewhere in Eastern Saudi Arabia, February 15, 1991

"Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism." - Denis Diderot

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." - Joseph Conrad

"It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens." - Marvin Minsky

"Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details." - William Feather, Sr.

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost

"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain

"Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room." - Blaise Pascal

"All men naturally desire knowledge." - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322)

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." - Mark Twain

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Steven Wright

"Paradox though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life." - Oscar Wilde

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - John Andrew Holmes

"The obstinacy of human beings is exceeded only by the obstinacy of inanimate objects." - Alexander Chase

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise." - Unknown

"I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy." - Samuel Butler

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." - Albert Einstein

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - Maurice Chevalier

"Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to act falsehoods." - George Santayana

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward." - Unknown

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911

"I think there is a world market for about 5 computers." - Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them." - La Rochefoucauld

"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!" - Unknown

"I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

"Love your enemies and drive them nuts." - Brother Dave Gardner

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson

"There is no way that a writer can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured ... The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where the food can be poked in to him with a stick." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Memory is the thing you forget with." - Alexander Chase

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood." - Georges Bataille

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private utility is dedicated to giving light." - David Milinkoff

"Better judged by 12 men than carried by six." - Lance

"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner." - Mark Twain

"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world." - John Fowles

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Many people may listen, but few people actually hear." - Harvey Mackay

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down." - Wilson Mizner

"History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable." - John W. Gardener

"Man is an infant, with the toys of a child, and delusions of adulthood." - A. Cygni, Philosopher

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know." - Ambrose Bierce

"The unnatural, that too is natural." - Goethe

"Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them" - Demonax (c 150 A.D.)

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein

"Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence." - Chinese Proverb

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." - Arthur C. Clarke

"You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." - Charles Barkley

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing... Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." - Helen Keller

"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously." - H.L. Mencken

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, in play." - Nietzsche

"You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than you can with just a 2x4." - Marcus

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." - Sandra Carey

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you don't care. Either case is a failure of leadership." - General Colin Powell

"The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment." - Lara Gassen

"Indignation is the seducer of thought. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." - George Jean Nathan

"Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off." - Lucretius

"All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it." - Marguerite Yourcenar

"It is not true that the more one thinks the less one feels, but it is true that the more one judges the less one loves." - Chamfort

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." - Mark Twain

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball. And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." - Ogden Nash

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness." - Henrik Ibsen

"The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." - Aldous Huxley

"It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." - Mark Twain

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully

"Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly." - Jonathon Swift

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly." - Voltaire

"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." - Joan Kerr

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers." - Nikita Khrushchev

"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections." - Unknown

"The first condition of immortality is death." - Stanislaw Lec

"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get." - George Bernard Shaw

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive." - John Sladek

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patten

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

"Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napolean Bonaparte

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast. The chicken was 'involved', but the pig was 'commited'." - Unknown

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"All truths pass through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov

"The older I grow the more I distrust the old doctorine that age brings wisdom." - H. L. Mencken

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." - Bernard Bailey

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best of advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - G. K. Chesterton

"If you want to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr

"The most beautiful people, are people who don't pretend to be something they are not." - Unknown

"Your enemy may have the muscle but you have the strength within you to beat him." - Christina

"A true friend does not stab you in the back, but in the front." - Unknown

"Never frown... you never know who is falling in love with your smile." - Unknown

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schweitzer

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long..." - Unknown

 "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." - P.J. O'Rourke

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Emiliano Zapata

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes." - Thomas Jefferson

Si vis pacem, para bellum ("If you seek peace, prepare for war") - Latin phrase

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Ben Franklin

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

"Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed." - G. K. Chesterton

"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say 'I was wrong.'" - Sydney J. Harris

"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund." - F.J. Raymond

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... the one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." - Theodore Roosevelt

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - Albus Dumbledore

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