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I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great



The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other. ~Dave Barry



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout



It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. ~C.W. Leadbeater



I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711



One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. ~John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones



I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ~Theodore Geisel



Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ~Proverbs 13:12



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



If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~Joseph Heller



Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is. ~Author Unknown



There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov



We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac



Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton



The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton



No vacation goes unpunished. ~Karl Hakkarainen



If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. ~Elbert Hubbard