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When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. ~Leslie Grossman



For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy



While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ~Arthur Conan Doyle



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~Spike Milligan, The Last Goon Show of All



We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder



Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years. ~Thomas S. Szasz



Plagiarism: literary theft; when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own; to avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.



Astrologers that future fates foreshow. ~Alexander Pope



Fact is, some women don't have large breasts, and they're people too. Maybe they'd like the freedom to show us their bottoms instead of their breasts. Maybe they'd enjoy a more flexible arse-friendly beach that says: "Hey, so long as you've got cleavage, who cares which way it's facing?" ~Coupling, "Jane and the Truth Snake," original airdate 1 October 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Jeff



I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ~Bill Vaughan



Virginity can be lost by a thought. ~St. Jerome



Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. ~Jean Arp



To labor is to pray. ~Motto of the Benedictines



To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. ~Lily Tomlin



I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps



A great library contains the diary of the human race. ~George Mercer Dawson



He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert



Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod