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The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all. ~Frank Dorrance Hopley



We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. ~Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994



Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb



Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge



The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion



Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related. ~J.C. Watts, Jr.



Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden



How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880



May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. ~Author Unknown



I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ~Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason



Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. ~Andrew Carnegie



Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol



The common thread that binds nearly all animal species seems to be that males are willing to abandon all sense and decorum, even to risk their lives, in the frantic quest for sex. ~Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, A Natural History of Rape



Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~William Styron



I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes



All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce