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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. .

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

in motion be like water... at rest, like a mirror. resound like the echo; be subtle, as though nonexistent.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. .

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.

In union there is strength.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.