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"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."	Kahlil Gibran
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."	Kahlil Gibran
"We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."	Kahlil Gibran
"Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone."	Roy R. Gilson
"Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone."	Roy R. Gilson
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight."	Terry Goodkind
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."	Stephen Jay Gould
"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes."	Alexander Hamilton
"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?"	Oscar Hammerstein, II
"Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly'? I'm afraid some people might actually think that."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power."	Gerard Hargraves
"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."	Sydney J. Harris
"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."	Helen Hayes
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Christian Nestell	Christine Leefeldt	Christopher Darlington Morley
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Emma Albani	Fran Lebowitz
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George Eliot	George Linley	Gerard Hargraves
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Helen Hayes	Henry Havelock Ellis	Henry James
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Miller	Heraclitus
Isak Dinesen	I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Francis Byrnes	James Russel Lowell
Jean Kerr	John Donne	John Keats
John Erskine	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Henry Newman
John Masefield	John Stuart Mill	Joseph Addison
Kahlil Gibran	Louisa May Alcott	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford	Marlene Dietrich	Marquis de Sade
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Oscar Hammerstein, II
Pablo Picasso	Paul Klee	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Phyllis	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Buckminster Fuller	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Bridges	Roger Bannister	Rose Elizabeth Bird
Roy R. Gilson	Rune Leknes	Saint Augustine
Simondes of Ceos	Stephen Jay Gould	Sydney J. Harris
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Henry Huxley	Tibetan Doctrine	Ursula K. LeGuin
Van Wyck Brooks	Victor Hugo	Vincent McNabb
William Hazlitt	William James	William Golding
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