If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away. ~Author Unknown, "The Scrappers Creed"
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche
End discrimination. Hate everybody. ~Elle Eden
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~Martha Graham
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine
Short A: Yes, using Google AdWords.
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones
Books are embalmed minds. ~Bovee
The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. ~F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution
Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie
For several moments both of us were the unconscious and cosmic toys of our own deception. ~"The Mission," Chapter 4
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ~Will Rogers
She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. ~Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. ~Robert Frost
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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