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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. ~Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler



In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



My boyfriend asked me why women think firemen are sexy, so I explained the pole theory: Men love women who slide down poles, and women love men who slide down poles. Subject dropped. ~Terri Guillemets



There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling



Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~Red Auerbach



The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. ~Harold Evans, "Pictures on a Page"



Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



No human thing is of serious importance. ~Plato



Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~Colonel Potter



There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen



Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, "Identity Crisis," original airdate 2 November 1981, written by Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, directed by David Ogden Stiers



Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ~Socrates



I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988



If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use? ~Author Unknown



We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan



The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson



If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task