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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch



Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. ~Thomas A. Bailey



Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953



Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ~Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956



You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ~Mary Wollstonecraft



Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton



When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. ~Author Unknown



The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth



Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ~J.B. Priestley



Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson



To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. ~Cary Grant



The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler



One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb



Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb



Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman



When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius



Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle



We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968