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The speedway ends at the cemetery. ~Author Unknown



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



Abraham Lincoln is not dead. Emancipated from the thraldom of time, he has stepped beyond the trammels of birth, and race, and state. He lives in an epic all his own; in ever widening spiritual leadership; in the splendor of realized ideals; in inspiration to good citizenship and in multiplying memorials in literature and art, in progress and reform, in patriotism and philanthropy, in education and humanitarianism. ~John Wesley Hill



Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~Thomas de Quincey



Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher



I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



Truth breeds hatred. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims



Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ~Will Rogers



A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. ~Sri Yukteswar



By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. ~Agesilaus



A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown



The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher



If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings



Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton



"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller



As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977



The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby