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In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? ~John Godfrey Saxe



To exaggerate is to weaken. ~Jean Francois de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770



Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ~Ninon de Lenclos



Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903



There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark



People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda



No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. ~Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience



When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner



You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Jaesse Tyler



The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent



When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman



What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Perhaps there should be one day a week when you tackle your "Things I Gotta Undo" list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Skipping arm in arm is double the joy! ~Jessi Lane Adams



The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes



The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers



The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ~Woodrow T. Wilson



I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it? ~Author Unknown



Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one. ~Grace McGarvie