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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ~James Madison



The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli



I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine



Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."



In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow



I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. ~William Ralph Inge



People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne



Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Anonymous



Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. ~George Bernard Shaw



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton



You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts. ~Martin H. Fischer



It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ~Lord Chesterfield



A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader



The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. ~William Stewart Halsted



Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Bronte



Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. ~Ernest Hemingway