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- Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Maine Woods," `Chesuncook'
- I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
- Frank Hughes
- Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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