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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi



I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams



Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown



If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.



They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621



To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland



He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. ~Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson



I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. ~I Corinthians 3:6-7



My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789



The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale



To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. ~Lily Tomlin



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819



The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager



When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso



History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel de Coulange, La Cite antique, 1864