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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~George Bernard Shaw



Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Henry Emerson Fosdick



People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand



Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford



Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. ~Sheila Rowbotham



Plagiarism: literary theft; when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own; to avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.



My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honore de Balzac



Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart



I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~Adriano Tilgher



A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart



In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold



Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber



Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln



Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown



To know the hight sic of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library. ~Grey Livingston



For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ~Robert Benchley, Benchley - or Else!