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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats



I'm not sure... about automobiles.... With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization - that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. I am not sure. But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace. I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just how, though, I could hardly guess. But you can't have the immense outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it may be that... the spiritual alteration will be bad for us. Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine, but would have to agree... that automobiles 'had no business to be invented.' ~Eugene, from Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918



Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad



There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out. ~Tom Masson



Laughorisms: humorous aphorisms, a term coined by Ambrose Bierce.



The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson



Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~John Muir Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~John Muir



What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~Phyllis Diller



Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ~R. Buckminster Fuller



God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. ~Author Unknown



A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ~William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918



I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. ~Henry David Thoreau



Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson



Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb



There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson



I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~John Keats



Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik