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Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit



I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. ~Danny McGoorty



I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ~Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977



Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will and Ariel Durant



Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant



The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. ~Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics



The power inside you is energy amplified. ~Claire Todae



If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein



Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. ~Mark Twain



As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell



Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. ~Paulette Bates Alden



We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York



All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon



Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony



Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb



If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~Sam Levenson



Quote A: �I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own.� ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne