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"A children's story which is only interesting to children is a bad children's story."

-C.S. Lewis-

(There's so much truth to this it's scary)

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. ... They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.” [john steinbeck]

This will always be my favorite quote.

"You call me gay, but I can get your girl screaming louder on the computer seat by just clicking 'Follow' on her Twitter."
- G Dragon

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." [Mark Twain]

"For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken

^^^^hiya Bill welcome to our club

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein

"I can resist everything except temptation." - Wilde

"You are who you are when nobody's watching." - Stephen Fry

"“How ya doin’?” I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, “A bit early to tell.”" - Christopher Hitchens

With apologies if its been posted already. Thread is rather long, after all.

"amazing truth about human tongue- it takes 3 years to learn how to use it, but it takes a lifetime to learn when and where to use it." - rishika jain

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.” [Stephen King, "11-22-63"]

from Michael Ellner’s personal state of the world address: “Just look at us,” he asks. “Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.”

Where there's a will - there's a way. You have to believe. I found it here and I even got a tattoo of the saying

[^^^welcome to WP ]

"The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern." Proverbs 29:7

Don't look back, you're not going that way

"When and if fascism comes to America...it will not even be called 'fascism'; it will be called, of course, 'Americanism'" --Professor Halford E. Luccock of Yale Divinity School; New York Times article from September 12, 1938, page 15

We don't really learn anything properly, until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

~Alain de Botton

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin