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When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. ~Author Unknown



Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ~Howard W. Newton



Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett



A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams



The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali



You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez



All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~John Muir



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. ~Stewart Dalzell As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen



What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens



Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska



If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright



Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. ~William Henry Beveridge



I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso



The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. ~David Lloyd George



The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge



The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez