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My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~Lemony Snicket



The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ~George Orwell



Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson



I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ~Mary Worley Montagu



It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. ~Samuil Shchatunovski



I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown



Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston



The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930



You heard about the Chinese godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand. ~Jason Cahill, The Sopranos, "Meadowlands," original airdate 31 January 1999, spoken by the character Corrado "Junior" Soprano



The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. ~John Fischer



Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ~Ecclesiastes 1:2



My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet



Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ~Alan Valentine



If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyan



What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley



The rule was "No autopsy, no foul." ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood



There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~Victor Hugo



Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ~Samuel Lover