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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." --Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (1958- ), in Calvin & Hobbes

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"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart." --Hellen Keller

"By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education...From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments." --Russell Baker, columnist and author (1925- )

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do." --Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." --G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 135

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." --W. Somerset Maugham

"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
--Robert Frost

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 134

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948)

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 134

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."
--Samuel Johnson

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
--William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

"When action grows unprofitable, gather information. When information grows unprofitable, sleep." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 131

"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors." --Rudyard Kipling

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." --Robert Graves

"You will find relief from vain fancies if you do every act in life as though it were your last." --Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)

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"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible." --Stanislaw Lem

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 129

"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me." --Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

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"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning." --George Orwell

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." --Chuck Reid

Quotations from Brainy Smurf 127

"We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. -Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today." --Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others." --Rene G. Torres

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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." --Colette, writer (1873-1954)