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- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
- Alan Chadwick
- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
- They can because they think they can.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
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