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When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown



What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest



Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960



It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ~Lucy Larcom



God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton



Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street. ~Author Unknown



It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli



Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ~William Feather



A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Author Unknown



Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb



Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off." ~Carl Sandburg



How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. ~James Michener



I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11



The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. ~Bill Frist