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• Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty 
Stainslaw J. Lee 

• March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like. 
Garrison Keillor 

• Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. 
Rebecca Johnson 

• Silence is a text easy to misread. 
A.A.Attanasio 

• Some people make headlines while others make history. 
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 

• We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. 
Sam Keen 

• Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young

• I can't sleep nights till I find out who hurled which ball through which aparatus. 
Niles on "Frasier," regarding basketball 

• If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. 
Old Irish Saying 

• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold

• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
Thornton Niven Wilder

• The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

• When neither their property or their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Machiavelli

• Beauty is a simple passion, but, oh my friends, in the end you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
Anne Sexton

• Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps

• Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden

• He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. 
Lao-Tzu

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

• I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.
George Sand

• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

• The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

• I'll not listen to reason.... Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. 
Henrik Ibsen

• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. 
Alphonse de Lamartine

• The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
James Monroe

• If God saw the way some Republicans invoked his name, he’d turn atheist.
Dennis Miller

• The Republicans are constantly painting fake tunnels on the sides of cliff walls, only to see President Clinton somehow beep beep right through them.
Dennis Miller

• I’m equal parts cynical and apathetic. I’m always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn’t take too much effort.
Dennis Miller

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