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A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh



We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~Francis A. Walker



A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown



The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958



The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes



What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham



Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Attributed to Howard Thurman



Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. ~Hermann Hankel



Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll



The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945



Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. ~Sainte-Beuve, Les Cahiers



Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.



History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne



What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? ~Author Unknown



At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ~Samuel Butler