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Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown



Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall



No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock



Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746



Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. Farley



In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ~Colette



Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi



You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan



The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice. ~Author Unknown



A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. ~Charles B. Fairbanks



I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love. ~Ovid



Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night. ~Author Unknown



We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~Carl Sagan



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~Calvin Coolidge, 1927



I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938



"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli



If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. ~Russian Proverb



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau