A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together...Layers, by their nature, are fragile things.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Marguerite Blessington

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

E.E. Cummings

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Bob Dylan

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Tim Allen

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Lyn Nofziger

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Jack Adams

If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.

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