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Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter


The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." ~Grace Hopper


After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958


What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown


We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. ~Katharine Brush


Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon


Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer


Home cooking: where many a man thinks his wife is. ~Author Unknown


While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain


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Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. ~Voltaire, 1767


I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ~Abe Lemons


Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them. ~Author Unknown


How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967


When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm. ~Milan Kundera


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I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine