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Lloyd Alexander quote: "Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time..."
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are. Lloyd Alexander
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.--from 'And Yet the Books Czeslaw Milosz
Will Rogers quote: "I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know..."
I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man. Will Rogers
Henry Miller quote: "Example moves the world more than doctrine."
Example moves the world more than doctrine. Henry Miller
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give. Michael Cunningham
Bill Watterson quote: "I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."
I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. Bill Watterson
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. Kurt Vonnegut
There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life. John Stuart Mill
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Immanuel Kant
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. Douglas Adams
Daniel Dennett quote: "If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only..."
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do. Daniel Dennett
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other. George Steiner
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged... Barack Obama
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. Mark Twain
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith. Margaret Sanger

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