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“If man were meant to be nude, he would have been born that way.”

Can’t recall the author.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon, Essays, 52. 'Of Ceremonies and Respects'

"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end." Benoit B. Mandelbrot

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney, as quoted in Animated Architecture (1982) by Derek Walker, p. 10

"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal', must necessarily be 'inferior'." Hans Asperger

"I always learn from the mistakes of others who take my advice" ~ unknown

Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless.
-Rosemary Dobson

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is - in fact - a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate."
Gregory House

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
-John Cleese, The Human Face, BBC Television (2001)

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise, they’ll kill you.” – Oscar Wilde IIRC

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-Count Galeazzo Ciano

“I have endeavored to guard myself against the enthusiastic partiality which believes our civilization to be the most precious thing that we possess or could acquire, and thinks it must inevitably lead us to undreamt-of heights of perfection. I can at any rate listen without taking umbrage to those critics who aver that when one surveys the aims of civilization and the means it employs, one is bound to conclude that the whole thing is not worth the effort and that in the end it can only produce a state of things which no individual will be able to bear.”

- Sigmund Freud, Civilization And Its Discontents

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"When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash ‹at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the Œnewness,¹ the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance."

- Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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"I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it"

- Lincoln

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Mid books and papers in my study pent,
if this be exile, sweet is my banishment.
-Milton

We were once so close to heaven
Peter came out and gave us medals,
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.
-They Might Be Giants

Strange inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows.
-H.P. Lovecraft

Young people must break machines to learn how to use them.
-Henry Cavendish

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful
-Anton LaVey

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Sir Winston Churchill.

“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.” – Marianne Williamson