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Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that's somehow connected to birth.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, September 30, 2003
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, November 5, 2003
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
Any woman with a purse that big's bound to have somethin' in it that I don't wanna know about.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.: Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

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