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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

Yesterday is a cancelled check, tomorrow a promissary note, today is cash....use it wisely.

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Henry Kissinger

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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Helen Keller

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever your memories are larger than your dreams--you're in trouble.

"A soft answer turns away anger, but a harsh answer stirs up bitter conflict"

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

Anne Frank

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Here's a whole BUTTLOAD. Sorry if this is a bit long. I've been collecting them for a while.

"What other people think of you is none of your buisness." -Rhiannon

"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory." – Zig Zaggler

"I have no real problems. I just think I have them." -Anonymous

"Anyone who tries to imprison friendship or love, will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank." -The Witch of Portobello, Page: 196

“Never, never, never, never give up.” - Winston Churchill

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

-Neil Gaiman

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”
- Javan

Don't quit when the tide is lowest,
For it's just about to turn;
Don't quit over doubts and questions,
For there's something you may learn
Don't quit when the night is darkest
For it's just a while 'til dawn;
Don't quit when you've run the farthest
For the race is almost won.
Don't quit when the hill is steepest,
For your goal is amost nigh;
Don't quit, for you're not a failure
Unilt you fail to try.
-Jill Wolf

“"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. "

-Dr. Viktor E. Frankl

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for,
risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.

-Erica Jong

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

"It is always more difficult to fight successfully against faith, than against knowledge, love is less subject to change than respect, hatred is more lasting than mere aversion...and the driving force which has brought about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always a devotion which has inspired then and always a hysteria which has urged them to action." - Adolf Hitler

'What is that noise?'
The wind under the door.
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Nothing again nothing.
'Do you know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember nothing?'
I remember ....
-T.S. Elliot (The Wasteland)

How can I go back to New York, to Banard, not knowing which ones are Goblins? How can I trust anyone ever again? How dare I marry someone, not really knowing what he is? How can I have friends, real friends with whom I can be open, direct, and truthful? I can't tell the difference between them and us, so I have to assume everyone's a Goblin. I'll have to be alone, always alone, forever alone. Because trusting in anyone could be the end of me. Alone...what kind of life will that be?"

-Dean Koontz (Twilight Eyes, Page: 337)

As I said when I began this story, hope is a constant companion in this life. It is the one thing that neither cruel nature, God, nor other men can wrench from us. Health, wealth, parents, beloved brother and sisters, children, friends, the past, the future-- all can be stolen from us as easily asn unguarded purse. But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, puring, ticking, driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we posess, for as long as we have hope we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency.

- Dean Koontz (Twilight Eyes, Page: 183)

"Sometimes I feel that all things in this life are subjective, that nothing in the universe can be objectively quantified, qualified-defined, that physicists and carpenters alike are made fools by the assumption that they can weigh and measure the tools and materials with which they work and can arrive at real figures that mean something."

-Dean Koontz (Twilight Eyes, Page: 24)

"I must not care too much about being alone. I must not care too much about what I cannot change. Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreck no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love, which means that to live I must care not about what I am but about what I can become, not about the past but about the future, not even so much about myself as about the bright circle of friends who provide the only light in which I am able to florish"

-Christopher Snow (Fear Nothing, Page: 327)

"There's always a way forward, but there's no way back." - Dean Koontz (The Darkest Evening of the Year, Page: 56)

"In the storms of this world, a way forward can always be found, but there is no way back either to a time of peace or to a time of tempest." (Page: 92-93)

"The geometry of judgement is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a cirlcle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever." (Pg: 132)

A good will isn't good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it's good in itself. Even if by the upmost effort the good will accomplishes nothing, it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself - Immanuel Kant

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway

"I will know Love no matter what circumstances the world may give me, no matter how many people choose to turn and walk away. I will find love in the laughter of little children, in the gentleness of animals, in the beauty and glory of Nature, in the knowledge of myself. And when the day comes that I find someone who does not turn away, I will give Love with all my heart. "

-Javan

"I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that wilfred for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise." -Malcolm X (Page:9)

"Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same buisness-- you know they're doing something that you aren't." - Malcolm X (Page: 21)

"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." - Malcolm X (Page: 22)

"In order to get something, you have to look like you already have something." - Malcolm X (Page: 108)

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Thanks sofia ...but I can't read all that and garner anything from it. Maybe you could post one a day from the list, all by itself?

People are known for the crises they overcame.

Yeah I knew it was a bit long. Heh.

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."

Shelley Winters

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I really like "progressive religious experience." That's GOOD. That's REALLY GOOD!!! Did Shelley Winters actually say it? I guess we'll never know.

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"What other people think of you is none of your buisness." -Rhiannon

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

Thomas Alva Edison

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"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."

Richard Feynman

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"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

Fran Liebovitz

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Mmmmmmmmh. Maybe two more millionths since Edison died?

"Your opinion of me is none of my business" is quite old but I'm not sure from whom it orginally came.
You don't decide to become someone, you discover who you are.

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts, women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he’s lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in his later seventies."

P.G. Wodehouse

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"I am a deeply superficial person."

Andy Warhol

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"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."

Oprah Winfrey

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"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."

Henny Youngman

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