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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)



Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~Mark Twain



Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey



A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911



Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey



But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ~Deuteronomy 32:15



Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein



For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Television is simply automated daydreaming. ~Lee Loevinger



Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay



We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick



Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden



Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb



A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982



Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. ~John B. Gough



The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963



You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime. ~Nancy Dedera, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. ~O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912



Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen



Renew your passions daily. ~Terri Guillemets