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A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~Caroline Bird


Curlers rock and roll! ~Saying of the sport


To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist. ~Terri Guillemets


Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley


Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen


The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~Salvador de Madariaga


The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ~Felix Adler


Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb


In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~Author Unknown


You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution" (Thanks, Corinne)


Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James


My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. ~Lemony Snicket


Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921


We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ~Bill Maher


To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post


Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Denis Diderot