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"My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding."
"Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning."
"To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
"Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division."
"9/11 Haiku: Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York "Now you boxcutter, Iraqi Pete, camel fuckersreally pissed me off!"
"American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism."
"Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are."
"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."
"You know you have ADD when Look A chicken - T-shirt"
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
"Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
"I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits."
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