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Mrs. Patrick Campbell


Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses

Colin Greenwood


It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.

George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings


Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

Yiddish Proverb


True poverty does not come from God.

Francois Fenelon


Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Toni Morrison


She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Bertrand Russell


Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000


But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

Lillian Hellman


Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

G. E. Lessing


One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

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