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| To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. ~Wendell Berry~ If you see a friend in trouble, don't ask if there is anything you can do. Think of something and do it. Nothing is too wonderful to be true. ~Michael Faraday Where there is doubt there is freedom. ~Latin proverb~ I'm not the advice-seeking, therapy-going, professional-help-getting kind, working under the theory that i know my problems and I'm unwilling to change. ~Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli~ God was my copilot, but we crashed into the mountains and I had to eat him. Personally, as a cockeyed optimist, it's possible that I find hope because I'm in denial, but hey, it works for me. ~Terry, Medsupport~ Ultimately Mother Nature is in charge of everything. ~Pierre Trudeau~ |
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| "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" |
| "Our country is far younger than the United States, but at the same time, the United States is a young country when you compare it to the countries of Europe. "Yeah," I answer, "but you're a very well-behaved young country." "Well"--he smiles--"that's just the way my mum raised me." ~Sarah Vowell speaking to an RCMP constable, The Partly Cloudy Patriot~ |
| It's embarrassing that 90 percent of the universe is unaccounted for. -- English astronomer Martin Rees. |
| Just remember- if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off |
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| There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer~ |
| Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket? |
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| Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, let Newton be and all was light ~Alexander Pope~ |
| Unfortunately, as so often in a shortsighted world, no one asked me about any of this. ~Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country~ |
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| "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
- St. Francis of Assisi "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham |
| All men are guilty of the good deeds he did not do. ~Voltaire~ |
| "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx |
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| When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake. I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a far horizon through eyes of chipped granite and say with a slow, manly sniff, "Yeah, I've shit in the woods." ~Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods~ |
| I know there are bigger things in this world to worry about but it is profoundly irritating - and i have never been able to find anyone to explain why it happens. ~ John Humphreys, Lost for Words~ |
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| I learned long ago that life isn't fair and you better stop expecting it to be. ~ Dana Reeve ~ |
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