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Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown



It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith



The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958



History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. ~Albert Camus, The Rebel



There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. ~Author Unknown



It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. ~Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes



It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils



Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum



Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe



I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ~Bernard Berenson



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biologiste, 1962



Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~Sydney J. Harris



What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher



The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~Charles R. Brown



If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson



How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard, The Writing Life



Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer