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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. ~Sigmund Freud



Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne



Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!" ~Author Unknown



The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. ~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999



We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard



Out with the cold, in with the woo. ~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"



Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang



Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood



If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath



A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin



It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ~Malcolm X



Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter



Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. ~Pat Conroy



If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. ~Lily Tomlin



The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw



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



Men are not people. We are disgustoids in human form. ~Coupling, "The Girl with Two Breasts," original airdate 9 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Jeff

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