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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf


If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use? ~Author Unknown


We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson


The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967


A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson


The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau


Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949


To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar


Historians are themselves products of history. ~Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge


This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see, Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain. ~Jay Leno


I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. ~Abraham Lincoln


As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ~James Madison


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


The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall


Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923