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You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger



Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams



There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. ~Russell Crowe



How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead



They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not. ~Clarence Darrow



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



If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. ~David Belasco If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard



Hockey is murder on ice. ~Jim Murray



Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound



The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all. ~Frank Dorrance Hopley



The movie The Graduate was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don't know who it is you're supposed to be. And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it's part of your initiation, your trial by fire. And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you've created this mess. Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that: a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999



Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius



There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer



It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss



The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell



God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi



There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. ~Clarence Darrow, 1936



Macho doesn't prove mucho. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis