Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor --because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

Angela Y. Davis

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Irving Babbitt

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

George Burns

Open confession is good for the soul.

Scottish Proverb

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.

Sheila Stubbs

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

St. Ignatius Loyola

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get mycar going really fast, and stick it out the window. I've beenarrested three times for practicing.

Steven Wright

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Leo Tolstoy