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- Well I was out in my four door
With the top down. And I looked up and there they were: Millions of tiny teardrops Just sort of hanging there And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry And I said to myself: What next big sky? - Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels
- And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat.
- Laurie Anderson, Sharkey's Night
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- It's easier to quote poets than to read them.
- Allison Barrows, Preteena, 09-30-06
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Lowest Animal"
- Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), Immortality
- With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
- Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
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