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People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino


Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~Turkish Proverb


Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne


Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~George A. Sheehan


This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown


We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage


Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev


Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel


Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter


Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end. ~Kent Ruth


Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia


War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta


Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington


A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ~Herbert Prochnow


Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ~Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923


Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder


O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~William Penn