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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911



There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings



To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler



Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain



I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~Mary Gardiner Brainard



If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen



Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing



For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. ~Tammy Bloemzaken



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X



Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson



The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown



A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939



To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson



Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. ~Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977



Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas



Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889



Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ~George Bernard Shaw



Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston



The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola