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In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine



Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ~Author Unknown



Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588



There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. ~Jesse Livermore



The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann



To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942



The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. ~Carl Van Vechten



Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown



All is not butter that comes from the cow. ~Proverb



We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar



"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ~Havelock Ellis



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



A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. ~Sri Yukteswar



Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. ~Susan Scarf Merrell



Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? ~Calvin and Hobbes



Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. ~Charles Sanders Peirce



Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926