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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ~Bertrand Russell



Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends. ~Author Unknown



For some moments in life there are no words. ~David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory



People's fates are simplified by their names. ~Elias Canetti



People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. ~Author Unknown



It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957



Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836



Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ~John Lancaster Spalding



But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~Frederic Bastiat, The Law



There's no thief like a bad movie. ~Sam Ewing



A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is "Cut down hours; cut down hours," until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work. ~Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather



Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire



A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ~John Locke, 16 May 1699



People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ~Barbra Streisand



Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe



In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin