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- Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), Saint's Tragedy (act III, sc. 1)
- If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below,
Dribbles down a marshy flood;
Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing,
"This is Spring." - Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl
- There's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.
- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
- It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Crime & Punishment, Chapter 1
- Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
- People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
- We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Der Spiegel, 1989
- The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
- Ed Parker
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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