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Madalyn Murray O'Hair quote: "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you. Wally Lamb
Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote. Jesse Ventura
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. Jean Genet
Ice T quote: "Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously..."
Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up. Ice T
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. Malcolm Gladwell
Jimmy Buffett quote: "Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering..."
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. Jimmy Buffett
Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain kinds of tasks better--logic, feats of memory, and so on. But if the IQ is much higher or lower than that, the window of creativity closes. Nonetheless, for some reason we believe more is better, so people yearn for tip-top IQs, and that calls for bigger memories. A fast, retentive memory is handy, but no skeleton key for survival. Diane Ackerman
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky? such brutal beauty is beyond dispute. Anne Rice
Patti Smith quote: "Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? Patti Smith
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. Derrick Jensen
Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek. Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their father weep William Gilbert
Arthur Golden quote: "I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery,..."
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. Arthur Golden
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. Edward Abbey
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. Steven Pinker

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