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"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Euripides
"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."	Dame Edna Everage
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."	Sam Ewing
"Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done."	Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."	Richard J. Ferris
"Strange is it not? That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to."	F(rancis) Scott
"We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us."	Tom Fitzgerald
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."	Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity."	William Hiram Foulkes
"What is to give light must endure burning."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."	Benjamin Franklin
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"	Maurice Freehill
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."	William H(oward) Gass
"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up."	Michael J. Gelb
"On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	Elizabeth Bowen	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Idle	Eugène Ionesco	Euripides
E. L. Doctorow	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Ferdinand Hodler
Forest McDonald	Frank L. Boyden	Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon
François Maurice Mitterrand	Fred Allen	Frederick Douglass
F(rancis) Scott	George Eliot	Georges Bataille
Georges Bernanos	George Gordon Byron	George Jean Nathan
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Guy Lynch	Haniel Long
Hannah More	Harry Emerson Fosdick	Hazrat Inayat Khan
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry C. Blinn	Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield
Homer	Horace Greeley	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Albert Michener	James Arthur Baldwin	Janet Louise Holman
Jean Baudrillard	Jennie Jerome Churchill	Jesse Lair
Jesse Louis Jackson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Milton
John Berry	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Josh Billings	Julie Burchill	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	K. D. Lang
Lao-Tzu	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon	Maurice Freehill
Maya Angelou	Michael J. Gelb	Michel Leiris
Michio Kushi	Miguel de Cervantes	Minnie Haskins
Mohammed Daud Khan	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Montagu Butler
Morris Mandel	M. Hirschfield	Napoleon I
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Newt Gingrich	Og Mandino
Oliver Goldsmith	Peter Hoeg	Prince Otto
Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard J. Ferris
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robertson Davies	Robert Maynard Hutchins
Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns	Saint Thomas Aquinas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sam Ewing	Sarah McLachlan
Siddha Nagarjuna	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	Sri da Avabhas	Susanna Moodie
Swedish Carol	Taylor Benson	Theodore M. Hesburgh
Thomas De Quincey	Tom Fitzgerald	Truman Capote
Victor Hugo	William Ellery Channing	William Hallman
William Hiram Foulkes	William H(oward) Gass	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller