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Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990



History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. ~Elias Canetti, The Human Province



When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. ~Bernie Brillstein, The Little Stuff Matters Most



The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt



A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer



I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. ~Milton Mayer



Pull yourself together and use what you have. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~Brendan Francis



Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles. ~Roseanne Barr



A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb



Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy



There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922



You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski



We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig



No one wants advice - only corroboration. ~John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent



Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. ~Clement Mok



The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ~Peter Berger