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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.
- There but for the grace of God go [I].
- John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
- 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
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001), "Any Road", Brainwashed, 2002
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- Steve Prefontaine
- We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", UK Channel 4, 2006
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