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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ~James Madison



You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ~Freeman Dyson, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey



The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh



I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913



I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~William Shakespeare, Henry IV



Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius



We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. ~From the movie Stripes



We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. ~Jean Kerr



Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley



Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. ~Mohandas Gandhi



I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger



Caring is the essence of nursing. ~Jean Watson



Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben



Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky



Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. ~Martin H. Fischer



Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair