"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Cicero
"Now, the trouble about making yourself stupider than you already are is that you very often succeed." -- C.S. Lewis
"Try to understand men. If you understand each other, you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love." -- John Steinbeck
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." -- Plato
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -- Ray Bradbury
"Fairytales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." -- G.K. Chesterton
"Where's the meat? This sandwich is full of weeds! I ain't eatin' nothing I don't understand!" -- Mr. T
"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." -- Hebrews 13:12
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." -- John Milton
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." -- Dante Alighieri
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house." -- George Burns
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill
"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!" -- Stephen Colbert
"Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" -- Cervantes
"The rights of minorities do not depend upon the goodwill of the majority and cannot be eliminated by majority vote. The right of minorities are protected because democratic laws and institutions protect the rights of all citizens." --Thomas Jefferson
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." -- John Stuart Mill
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people." -- James Madison
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- John Donne
"The sea has been divided; a cloud has escorted you on your journey; water has flowed out of the rock; manna has fallen from on high. Everything has conspired to make you great. The rest you must do for yourself. God does not want to have to do the whole thing, for he likes to leave us with our free will so we can lay claim to part of the glory by earning it." -- Machiavelli
"I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is." -- Forrest Gump
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?'" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. -- Matthew 22:36-40
"Even the strongest man needs friends." -- Mario Puzo
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." -- Harper Lee
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -- Douglas Adams
"Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." -- Philippians 4:8
"I search for life in dread death,
in fearful disease for health,
in dark prison for liberty,
escape in a sealed room,
in a traitor, loyalty.
But my own fate from whom
I never hoped for the good
has with just heaven ruled:
if the impossible I demand,
for me the possible is banned."
"And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people." -- Leo Tolstoy
"My wish
For you
Is that this life becomes
All that you want it to.
Your dreams stay big,
Your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold;
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you
And wants the same things, too." -- Rascal Flatts
"Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who has loved another has fulfilled the Law." -- Romans 13:8
"'He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?' declares the Lord." -- Jeremiah 22:16
"People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Anybody can be a ****head, but it takes practice to be a nice guy." -- My grandfather
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." -- Alice Lamott
"A person starts to live when he can live outside of himself. A person's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -- Albert Einstein
"If God didn't create gay people, there wouldn't be any."
"Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it. But I'm afraid He would ask me the same question."
"England's not actually in Europe; we tolerate Europe, like how a person tolerates herpes." -- Shaun Hastings
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