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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler



Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. ~Author Unknown



Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953



Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin



A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan



Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn



The speedway ends at the cemetery. ~Author Unknown



The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau



A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953



So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family



Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet



The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker



The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller



It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus



The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ~Author Unknown



Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend



If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents. ~Leon Panetta



Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. ~Terry Hanson



It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ~Mark Twain