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Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974



Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill



Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.... In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience



Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha



Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. ~Victor Kiam



Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky



Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ~Mark Twain



Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey



The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch



A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~Francoise Sagan



Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White



The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals



A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ~Evan Esar



Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom



Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter



Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas



People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anaiis Nin, Diary, 1967



Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943



Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~Jules Renard