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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee



I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. ~Alan J. Perlis



The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp



Perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede



A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. ~Elmer G. Letterman



I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings



And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~Confucius



Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence



Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"



Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~Seneca



I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. ~Benjamin Harrison



Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~Ambrose Bierce



Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown



Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds



I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. ~Hawkeye, "O.R.," original airdate 8 October 1974, written by Larry Gelbart and Laurence Marks, directed by Gene Reynolds



There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin



You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns