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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann



Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan



California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange. ~Author Unknown



Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. ~Terry Hanson



An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown



They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"



If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him. ~Bob Hope



Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth. ~Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984



When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~Chuck Palahniuk



Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle



History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David McCullough



I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958



In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. ~Author Unknown



I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ~John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners



Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore



Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. ~Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762



Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford



Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. ~Thomas A. Bailey