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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce



Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. ~Grey Livingston



A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ~Helen Rowland



I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~Ty Cobb



We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac



When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~Woody Allen



Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show



A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. ~G.R. Elton, The Practice of History



I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al McGuire



You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762



An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. ~Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949



We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ~John F. Kennedy



But they are useless. They can only give you answers. ~Pablo Picasso, about computers



Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White



Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ~Psalms 34:13



This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw



A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart