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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln



Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder



Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838



The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald



A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10



With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. ~Edward Everett



Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. ~Deborah Chaskin



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card



I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead



A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall



Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives



I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette



There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes



Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ~Paul Valery, Tel Quel, 1943



Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes



When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949