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"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'"	Charles Dickens
"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."	Elizabeth Bowen
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."	Miguel de Cervantes
"...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."	Fred Allen
"A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark."	Henry Louis Mencken
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."	Bernard Meltzer
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."	Robertson Davies
"After enlightenment, the laundry."	Josh Billings
"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."	Susanna Moodie
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom."	Forest McDonald
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."	James Albert Michener
"And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'"	Minnie Haskins
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)"	Juvenal
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."	Carl Gustav Jung
"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool."	Akhenaton
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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	Oprah Winfrey	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
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