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I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name



I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin



Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter



Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~Colette



The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra



Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley



A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets



Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. ~Author Unknown



No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir



There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." ~Ernie Kovacs



What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound



If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. ~Old Yiddish Proverb



It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ~Juvenal



If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. ~Stanley Rous, 1952