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- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.'
- Ellen DeGeneres
- 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #678, 08-02-06
- You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
- Laurie Anderson, Sharkey's Night
- Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.
- Dave Matthews
- War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
- Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys: A Memoir
- All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
- I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. - Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
- His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 2
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