"....It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."

-- Isaac Asimov

"....Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy."

--- Mo Rocca

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor

- Indian Saying

"...I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."

- Edith Sitwell

"...Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. "

--- Marcus Quintilian.

' "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."'

"....Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!..."

- Hunter S. Thompson


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"...Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

- J.K. Rowling


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"...Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where --"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go....."

- Lewis Carroll

A person's job does not define who you are

* "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

* -Ray Bradbury


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* "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

* -Mortimer J. Adler

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* "The world was hers for the reading."

* -Betty Smith