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While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964


Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. ~Author Unknown


As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley


Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. ~Gil Stern


I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson* (Thank you, Frank Lynch of SamuelJohnson.com)


I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin


We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665


Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ~Sigmund Freud


The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected. ~Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991


Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ~Samuel Pepys


Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson


While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler


Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola


We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~Proverb


The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed. ~The Sickness Unto Death


Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly


Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly


The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. ~Sigmund Freud, attributed