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"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."

-Rachel Carson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

-Nelson Mandela,

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
--Mark Twain

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.”

-- Daniele Vare

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.”
-Michelangelo

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
-Steven Wright

"In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people."

-Momus

(An internet-inspired take on Andy Warhol's famous quote that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes")

"Knowledge is laughable when attributed to a human being."

-Sun Ra

There's a lot of great stuff here. I love what everyone has contributed, so far!

"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."

-Mitch Hedberg

lol thats a good one (I'm sick of following my dreams...)

"Never hold your tongue, for the people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind"

They say that God only gives you the weight of problems that you can handle, sometimes i just wish he did not have such a high Opinion of me.

"the most important thing in a theater play is the actor"
by Maria Clara Machado
quote from master of theater for children in Brazil

"the actor is the image"
by Roman Bruni

Life is not about having what you want; it is about wanting what you have.

"Society teaches us that, having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that's baloney, because grief isn't wrong. There's such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown. " Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) "The Office"

"You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them." -NDyer

"Every day we're stripped of our rights until there's just a bare assed me embarassed by what we see freedom aint free but the price to pay shouldn't be the rights of you and me" babyroo

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright -

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"

J.F.K.

One more from the great architect

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"
- Frank Lloyd Wright -

"All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss." --Douglas Adams in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” --Jalal-Uddin Rumi

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." --Rabindranath Tagore

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." --Khalil Gibran in "The Prophet"