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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

But death’s acquisitive instincts will win.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Author : Marcel Proust

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Author : Walt Whitman

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Author : Mark Twain

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Author : Charles Ives

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I’d give up after a few minutes. I’d find other things to do: Anything but writing.

Author : Mary Garden

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Author : John Lennon

They have the ability to take a person’s freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person’s reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person’s life.

Author : Daryl Gates

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Author : Henry David Thoreau

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Author : Mark Twain

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Author : George Eliot

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won’t believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

Author : Garth Brooks

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Author : Victor Garber

You know, this is – one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all – mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

Author : Michael Isikoff

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It’s happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Author : David Brin

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Author : Henry David Thoreau

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Author : George William Norris

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Author : James Ellroy

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

Author : George D. Aiken

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Author : Plato