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- They say that facing oneself is the sign of a zany man, but facing this flabby belly requires a lot of courage.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 01-07-09
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
- Foolery... does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
- I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
- Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
- Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
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