"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't go on strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
--Homer Simpson"There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature."
--Henry David Thoreau, WaldenAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
--Oscar Wilde"The danger of scientific thought is the temptation to atheism."
--Cotton Mather, 1721When we think of the past, we tend to assume that people were simpler in their functions, and shaped by forces that were primary and irreducible ... But none of this is true. Those who went before us were every bit as wayward and unaccountable and unsteady in their longings as people are today. The least breeze, whether it be sexual or psychological—or even a real breeze, carrying with it the refreshment of oxygen and energy—has the power to turn us from our path."
--Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries"Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?--diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states."
--Ralph Ellison, Invisible ManLove is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
--Woody AllenThe needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few--or the one.
--Mr. SpockMore Aphorisms Online
Author: Matthew Henry
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