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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats


There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. ~John Ruskin


I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985


The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Author Unknown


A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe


Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck


Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966


I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones


Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ~Jose Marti, letter, 1890


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm


Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ~Gene Perret


Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer Collins


Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. ~Alan Kay


In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. ~Thomas Carlyle


I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients." ~Ernest van den Haag, psychotherapist


Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton


War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin


It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. ~Robert Lynd