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I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. - Lizzie Andrew Borden
"Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions." ~ Aldous Huxley
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you. Neitsche
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. - Menachem Begin
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
Wes Fesler
Don’t ruminate about the past! Don’t anticipate the future! Don’t cogitate about the present! Not tampering with it Leave mind just as is This very instant Aware Relaxed Beyond this, there’s not a damn thing!- Patrul Rinpoche
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. - Edith Stein
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. - Alan Watts
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life, to wait until you’re ready. Hugh Laurie
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. - Blaise Pascal
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. – William James
"I was taught never to speak bad of the dead, and to only speak good. Joan Crawford is dead-good."
Bette Davis
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. - Thomas Moore
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.
I think a Chinese proverb? I love this quote.
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. – Joseph Brodsky