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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. ~Don Murray



For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. I Timothy 6:7



Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France



Platitude: a banal or stale remark; a commonplace or trite remark or idea, especially one uttered as if it were original or momentous.



Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942



Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb



Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde



Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975



A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo



I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill



The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec



An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ~Stephen Fry



Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood



I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies



It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ~Henry David Thoreau



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. ~Shana Alexander, State-by-State Guide to Women's Legal Rights, 1975



We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller