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"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) Funny. But odd once you think about it. The west...

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 New fashions, seeming to defy the passage of time...

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh Of the many peculiarities of hum...

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. - RD Laing, psychiatrist and author (1927-1989) One dictionary defines insanity as a "relatively permanent...

"I’d spent my whole life feeling like a freak and an outsider and that nobody understood me and suddenly I felt like it's OK to feel different." - Madonna...

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.<br> - Neil Armstrong<p><p&...

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton),...

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. <br> - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)<br><p> It's an odd characteristic of human nature that we...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) I find the term "religion of solitud...

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick A sobering thought for consideration. Mr. ...

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US Preside...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004) (or, what I see is not what you painted) This applies as much to wr...