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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~Thomas Jefferson



Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners



Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan



If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. ~Michael Jay Tucker



If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel



AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag



Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr.



Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton, 1988



The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson



Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein



If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells, Things to Come (the "film story"), Part III, adapted from his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, spoken by the character John Cabal (Thanks Bill!)



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~Colette Baron-Reid



Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness. ~Terri Guillemets



I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~Anatole France



A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ~Thomas C. Haliburton



After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan