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#1. Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

John Updike

#2. Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

Ani DiFranco

#4. As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

#5. I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

#6. A bench of bishops is the devils flower garden

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#7. In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

Florence Kelley

#8. In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire - not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

Dexter Palmer

#9. Happiness is a room full of books and a closet (or two) full of shoes.

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#10. My lowest points was getting injured and pulling out of fights.

Joe Calzaghe

#11. The city, which should be the symbol and center of civilization, can also be made to function as a concentration camp. This is one of the significant discoveries of contemporary political science.

Edward Abbey

#12. So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

John Shelby Spong

#13. I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.

Walter Truett Anderson

#14. We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Daniel Handler

#15. Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell