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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~Samuel Johnson



Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."



I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth



With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer. ~A.C. Van Cherub



If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Cancer don't respect nothing. ~David Chase, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, and Terence Winter, The Sopranos, spoken by the character Furio Giunta



If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander. ~Mary McLeod Bethune



The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. ~Erma Bombeck



There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton



Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson



I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. ~Rita Mae Brown



When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. ~Psalms 127:2



When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. ~Indian Saying



You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. ~Frank Crane



Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~Sonja Henie



It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~David Frost



Every man is the son of his own works. ~Miguel de Cervantes