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- One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
- When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.
- Jean Chretien, (Canadian Prime Minister) in an interview in 2003
- Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.
- General John Stark, (State motto of New Hampshire)
- Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
- The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
- The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
- Judith Hayes
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