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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945



Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!



Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad



The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader



Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha



It must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker



Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk



You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh



Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H



"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~Andre Gide



Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. ~Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player



History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. ~Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion



Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus



The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine