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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. ~Edgar A. Suter



I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton



Hamlet: As woman's love.



Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims



As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. ~John Smith



We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore



I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850



A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde



Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981



Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan



Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ~Galway Kinnell



You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. ~Author Unknown



I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying. ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs



I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines



The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers



Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957



My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ~Joan Rivers



Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. ~Erich Heller



No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. ~Chris Sorensen



A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino