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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James



The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton



Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown



The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries



What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? ~J.B. Priestley



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ~Justice William J. Brennan, 1982



We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. ~John F. Kennedy



One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~Walter Bagehot



Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge



Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly. ~Author Unknown



Marriage ...the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell



We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown



Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage



Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein



A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables



Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain



Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. ~Florenz Ziegfeld



Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin