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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. ~L.L. Hendren



Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~Mohandas Gandhi



It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. ~Grace Hopper



A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau



Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. ~Mark Twain



The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



A good example has twice the value of good advice. ~Author Unknown



For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. ~George Bernard Shaw



The devil... seldom leads people astray anymore, finding it easier to just follow along in their footsteps. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836



Wedlock is a padlock. ~John Ray, English Proverbs



To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius



Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal



One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy, 1908



The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. ~Steve Forbes



The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~Louis Pasteur



Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb



The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey



What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses