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Rita Mae Brown


A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Charles Franklin Kettering


It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Doug Larson


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)


We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

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