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People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. ~Alan J. Perlis



One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ~Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1923



I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No." ~Woody Allen



Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ~Oscar Wilde



At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey



Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. ~Ernest Dimnet



Democracy was getting old anyway. ~Author Unknown



Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer



Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. ~Thomas Fuller



Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~Andre Gide, L'immoraliste



What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.



A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." ~Soren Kierkegaard



Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth



One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas



We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963



And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet. ~Terri Guillemets