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"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954



God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien



Anonymous Hick Redneck Founding Father: "Think of it: an entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another."



We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. ~Bernard M. Baruch



Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~E.B. White



The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab



After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw



Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher



Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary



I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody



I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. ~John Waters



Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard



If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom



Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. ~William Lloyd Garrison



You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug. ~Author Unknown You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi



Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb



War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill



There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson