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One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"



To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. ~Gore Vidal



And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer



Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee



Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? ~Carrie Latet



Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



They're sure housework won't kill you, but why take the risk? Author Unknown



God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor



We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. ~Natash Jasefowitz



Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps



Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ~Jules de Gaultier



There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel



I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974



Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~William J. Bennett



I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn



Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism



All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy



Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ~Gail Godwin



If a neurotic can't stand the heat, he lights another candle. ~Terri Guillemets