For all you lurkers with a low post count

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Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

 

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

 

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Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

 

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Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

 

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To love is to approach each other center to center.

 

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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

 

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Nature in the garden is nature tamed, cultivated, made subservient to human purpose, brought into subjection to conscious purpose. A garden is not merely a piece of nature fenced in near the house, like a wolf chained at the back door; but nature cultivated and trained like a dog tamed and trained for human ends. Art in the garden is the human element appropriating and elevating the natural for human purpose.

 

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The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has changed to advertising copy.

 

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

 

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Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.

 

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

 

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

 

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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods.

 

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

 

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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

 

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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot the wrong questions.

 

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But just as much as it is easy to find the differential of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

 

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Obedience to the commandments of God is the key to spirituality.

 

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When you finally make the ends meet, they move the ends

 

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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.