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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca



An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. ~Robert Ingersoll, quoted in Ingersoll the Magnificent



I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 9



Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown



The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ~L. Thomas Holdcroft



court the fluttering butterflies. ~Astrid Alauda



The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~Doug Larson



I'm not overweight, I'm undertall. ~Author Unknown



History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. ~Milan Kundera



Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets



In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~St. Augustine



No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown



Habit rules the unreflecting herd. ~William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822



The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey



Context: the part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning; the circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.



And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ~H.L. Mencken



Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate. ~Author Unknown



When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork. ~Rick Budinich



I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712