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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson



When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. ~Edie Cantor



Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb



Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth



Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Tryon Edwards



Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~Clint Eastwood



To exaggerate is to weaken. ~Jean Francois de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770



A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown



But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~Frederic Bastiat, The Law



Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~Daniel Defoe



No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. ~George Bernard Shaw



That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980



Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. ~Carol Saline



Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer



Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry