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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. ~Charles Anderson Dana



Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley



I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems



At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ~George Plimpton



If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken



Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut



You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment



I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown



Skipping is a form of flying. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. ~Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians



God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen



Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ~Zen Saying



Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. ~Edward Abbey



Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine



Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukkah!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!" ~Dave Barry



Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"



History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History