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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler



All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~Laurens van der Post



You might be a fireman if you've ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl. ~Author Unknown



Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. ~T.S. Eliot



It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution. ~Dusty Hicks



When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. ~Jean Giraudoux



If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown



Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde



Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. ~E.M. Cioran



Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child



He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese. ~Sir Thomas More



When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ~William Shakespeare, Henry V



For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. ~I Timothy 5:18



The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. ~Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945



Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~Jane Addams, 1910



One man's daydreaming is another man's woman. ~Grey Livingston



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts