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"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."

- Dorothy Parker

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. "

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna' hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

Pardon the way that I stare.
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak.
There are no words left to speak,
But if you feel like I feel,
Please let me know that it's real.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

I love you, baby,
And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm the lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you."

- Bob Crewe

"Being powerful is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

- Margaret Thatcher

Sound Familiar?

“In the Kali Yuga people achieve noble rank in society based on the amount of money and property they own rather than their moral virtue. The quality of virtue is measured only in terms of material wealth. Sexual passion alone binds husband and wife together in marriage. People become successful in life through a succession of lies, and their only source of enjoyment is sex. They live with continuous fear of hunger, disease, and death.”

- Donna Rosenburg, World Mythology

"[This] situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

“Not only is songwriting a bitch, but then it goes and has puppies.”

- Steven Tyler

“Every time an earth mother smiles over the birth of a child, a spirit mother weeps over the loss of a child.”

- Ashanti proverb

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

Naturally (I Can Relate)

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Silence
Something about silence makes me sick
'Cause silence can be violence
Sorta’ like a slit wrist

If the vibe was suicide
Then you would push da’ button

But if ya’ bowin' down
Then let me do the cuttin'

Some speak the sounds
But speak in silent voices
Like radio is silent
Though it fills the air with noises
Its transmissions bring submission

As ya’ mold to the unreal
And mad boy grips the microphone
Wit' a fistful of steel"


- Zacarìas Manuel de la Rocha

"'It was easier when I lived inside a box,' he said. 'Being told what to do, what to think. Real life is too messy. People are too complicated. The real world isn't worth all the trouble.'
'Give it a chance,' she said"

- Gloria Skurzynski, Virtual War

"If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
- Mark Twain

"The Seven Blunders of the World:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.

Knowledge without character.

Commerce without morality.

Science without humanity.

Worship without sacrifice.

Politics without principle."

- Mahatmas Ghandi

"Here the question arises; whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared than loved. The answer is that it would be desirable to be both but, since that is difficult, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved, if one must choose. "

- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

"This wasn't funny at all. The people in the crowd shuffled their feet and avoided each other's eyes. Then for a third time, most quietly of all, Ira Hath said, 'O unhappy people. I hear your hearts crying, for want of kindness.'
No one ever said such things in Aramanth. The people heard her in shocked silence. Then they began to leave, in ones and twos, and Ira Hath knew she had proved herself a true prophetess, because none could bear to hear her speak."

- William Nicholson, The Wind Singer

“I just think, like our teachers here, that if ministers are effective, they’re good at asking questions to get you to think. I don’t think they’re supposed to have the answers. Not necessarily.”

- Elphaba, Wicked