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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?: Judith Hayes
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), The Story Girl
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

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