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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay



Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax



Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson



The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ~Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe



It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ~Shanna LaFleur



People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda



Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~Lord Reading, on speechmaking



The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ~Fanny Fern



I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs



It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep



A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore



The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ~Author Unknown



And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath



The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A race track is a place where windows clean people. ~Danny Thomas



To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman



The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken



The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets



The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer