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- Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988), Cry the Beloved Country
- The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05
- Desperate is not a sexual preference.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 01-08-09
- I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
- Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats (1795 - 1821), Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne (1572 - 1631), Death Be Not Proud
- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
- Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
- Robertson Davies
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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