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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change. - Val Kilmer (RIP)

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa

A woman simply is, but a man must become. - Camille Paglia

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

Leap, and the net will appear. - John Burroughs

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” —Lilly Pulitzer

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Maya Angelou

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness. - Val Kilmer (RIP)

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

Tou can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. - Art Buchwald

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. - Neal Boortz

"Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful."

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - William Feather

“I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.” —Helen Keller

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. - Daniel Webster

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

We are all born marked for evil. - Charles Baudelaire

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. - Joseph Pulitzer

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. - Havelock Ellis

"The best view comes after the hardest climb."

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. - William Hazlitt

I'm not afraid of storms, I'm learning how to sail my ship.

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” ― Edmund Burke

"Pain is a gift. It gives meaning and ultimately makes you stronger."

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. - Jacques Lacan

"Champions keep playing until they get it right"

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

"Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder," by Gilbert C. Chesterton

We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work." - Rosa Parks

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. - Euripides

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. - Matt Frewer

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. - Mario Vargas Llosa

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. - Clare Boothe Luce

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Peter Ustinov

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. - Audrey Hepburn

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. - Thornton Wilder

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. – Logan Pearsall Smith

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir