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Science is simply common sense at its best. ~Thomas Huxley



Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown



Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton



The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb



History is politics projected into the past. ~M.N. Pokrovsky



We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.... When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge provided for us by a Pacific Islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs, we are beholden to more than half the world. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda



They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. ~Author Unknown



He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. ~John Ray



It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau



Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prevert



I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ~John Wayne



Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb



Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner



Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs



Quote A: �The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.� ~Jon Stewart Quote A: �Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.� ~C.A. Johnson



Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson