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I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter Virginia C. Andrews
Maya Angelou quote: "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let..."
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is..."
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. Barbara Kingsolver
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason. Giacomo Casanova
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. Ursula K. Le Guin
During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to the disconcerting conclusion that whistling was not an important theme in literature. Julio Cortazar
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom..."
Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes. P. J. O'Rourke
You're like nearly all American women--married or single, young or old--you're all of you scared to death about sex--just as your Puritan mothers were! And you leave it alone--you keep it down--you never give it a chance--you're afraid! But I'm not afraid--and I'm living my life! And let me tell you I'm not alone! There are hundreds and thousands doing the same--right here in New York City to-night! It's been abroad for years and years--in Rome and Berlin, in Paris and London--and now,... Ernest Poole
Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be. Douglas Adams
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time. John Greenleaf Whittier
J. William Fulbright quote: "The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity."
The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity. J. William Fulbright
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen. Dalton Trumbo
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization. George H. W. Bush
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. John Steinbeck

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