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July 2004 Quotes

The true measure of a man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
Value

Possibly, more people kill themselves
and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy,
jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
Vanity

Vengeance is not the point; change is.
But the trouble is that in most [people's]
minds the thought of victory and the
thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming
Vengeance

Every form of addiction is bad, no
matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Gustav Jung
Vices

Every reformation must have its
victims. You can't expect the fatted
calf to share the enthusiasm of the
angels over the prodigal's return.
Saki
Victims

Virtue is not the absense of vices
or the avoidance of moral dangers;
virtue is a vivid and separate thing,
like pain or a particular smell.
G. K. Chesterton
Virtue

Somewhere on this planet,
someone has a solution to each of
the world's problems.  It might be
one of us.  With your help, we
can build a more hopeful world.
Marianne Larned
Volunteerism

When you are unhappy, is there
anything more maddening
than to be told that you should
be contented with your lot?
Kathleen Norris
Unhappiness

Half of the American people
never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
Voting

If you believe that feeling bad or
worrying long enough will change
a past or future event, then you
are residing on another planet
with a different reality system.
William James
Worry

Youth is not a question of years:
one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Years

One of the hardest things in life is having
words in your heart that you can't utter.
James Earl Jones
Words

You yawn to equalize the pressure on your
eardrums. This pressure change outside your
eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, 
so they must yawn to even it out.
Why Yawning Is Contagious
Yawns

Creativity is allowing yourself
to make mistakes. Art is
knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

It is only imperfection that complains of what
is imperfect. The more perfect we are
the more gentle and quiet
we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison

It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

A doubtful friend is worse than a
certain enemy. Let a man be
one thing or the other, and we
then know how to meet him.
Aesop

The line of life is a ragged diagonal
between duty and desire.
William R Alger

People who are aware of, and
ashamed of, their prejudices are well
on the road to eliminating them.
Gordon Willard Allport

Prejudice is like a hair across
your cheek. You can't see it, you
can't find it with your fingers, but
you keep brushing at it because
the feel of it is irritating.
Marion Anderson

Remember, it is ten times harder to
command the ear than to catch the eye.
Maxwell Anderson

The thorn from the bush one has
planted, nourished and pruned
pricks more deeply
and draws more blood.
Maya Angelou

What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh

I distrust those people who
know so well what God wants
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
Susan B Anthony

Between flattery and admiration there
often flows a river of contempt.
Mina Thomas Antrim

Three things are necessary for
the salvation of man:
to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do.
Two Precepts of Charity, 1273
St Thomas Aquinas

Love involves a peculiar
unfathomable combination
of understanding
and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus

Promises are the uniquely human way
of ordering the future, making it
predictable and reliable to the extent
that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt