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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Saint Augustine

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied -Herophilus

'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'
- George Carlin

"I've always loved natural history. When I was ten I saw a cross section of a tree at the Natural History Museum. They'd labelled the rings with events like the Battle of Hastings. The ring in the middle was labelled the Birth of Chrst - so it was 2, 000 years old." Ricky Gervais

I'm not sure how I feel about Ricky Gervais but I think it's an interesting quotation.

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." -- Jodi Picoult, author of "My Sister's Keeper".

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

-The Buddha.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Henry D. Thoreau

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.”

- A. E. Housman

When you have cancer, people send flowers; when you lose your mind, they don't.

- Elyn Saks

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. -Tolkien

"If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of the galaxy. You are all just like that. There is nothing wrong with you at all."

-Alan Watts

"A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!"

Sgt Apone

“You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”

- Fourth Doctor

"Once more into the fray.
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day.
Live and die on this day."