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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach



History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~Konrad Adenauer



It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. ~Robley Wilson, Jr.



In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ~Peter Alexander Ustinov



Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford



Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~Francis Bacon



I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? ~Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt



A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939



This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett



It takes two men to make one brother. ~Israel Zangwill



One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa



The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923



Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart



One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. ~Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969



To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. ~Steve Hovley, 1969



Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Terri Guillemets



As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades



The body is a bundle of careful compromises. ~Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick