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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"



A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



The power inside you is energy amplified. ~Claire Todae



On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism. ~Barry Goldwater



The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we've changed this country before. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois



Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future.... As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter. ~Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave



A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings



If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~Woodrow Wilson



Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~Jean Paul Richter



A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins. ~Author Unknown



Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ~Galatians 6:7



Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester



Nursing care comes in many forms. Sometimes it is the ability to make someone feel physically comfortable by various means. Other times it is the ability to improve the body's ability to achieve or maintain health. But often it is an uncanny yet well honed knack to see beyond the obvious and address, in some way, the deeper needs of the human soul. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses



Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream. ~Author Unknown



How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney



A man with God is always in the majority. ~John Knox



It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke



The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes. ~Author Unknown



Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream? ~Ashleigh Brilliant



There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindustani Proverb