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The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine



Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. ~Fanny Fern



Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus



What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. ~Will Rogers



You are my sonshine. ~Author Unknown



You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. ~Rose Maccaulay



"Recycling and speed limits are bullshit," Tyler said. "They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



Quotations for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. ~James Murray



Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn



We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter



All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. ~Terri Guillemets



What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947



My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy



In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ~Robert Greene Ingersoll, "The New Testament," Some Reasons Why, 1881



War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

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