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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. ~Walter Rauschenbusch



Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)



Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams



Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ~Romans 13:10



Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle - that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton



The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey



Love is blind; hate is deaf. ~Author Unknown



Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso



What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. ~Lee Iacocca



In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author Unknown



I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. ~J. Edgar Hoover, attributed



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. ~Author Unknown



Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown



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



All the coffee in Columbia won't make me a morning person. ~Author Unknown



When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell



Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ~Richard Cowper