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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History



The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763



Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby



There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. ~Elton John



Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo



We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang



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



I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ~E.M. Forster



They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Frank Burns, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda



A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. ~E.B. White, One Man's Meat, 1944



Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb



The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911



Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081



As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ~John Ruskin



Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani



Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown



The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb