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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha



Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ~Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957



Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare



Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey



Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison



There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. ~Harriet van Horne



When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke



My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy



Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912



Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~Samuel Johnson



One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas



By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton



It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971



Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ~Seneca



To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard



Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. ~Clare Booth Luce



What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ~Agnes Repplier



I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. ~Karl Friedrich Gauss



Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule