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God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr



Not tonight honey, wait 'til I'm a size 6. ~Susan Reinhardt, title of book



History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~Thomas Jefferson



Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~Lily Tomlin



It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck



Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ~Thomas Carlyle



Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~Attributed to John Wagner



Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale



In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ~Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2004 Jul 27



Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley



Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. ~Edgar A. Shoaff



To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey



In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ~Susan B. Anthony



I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards. ~W. Somerset Maugham



A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes. ~Author Unknown



The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. ~Schopenhauer



I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997



If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. ~Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970



Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896