"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." -- Nora
Ephron

"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling;
true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." --
John W. Gardner

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by
ourselves alone--we find it with another." -- Thomas Merton

"Love is my decision to make your problem my concern." -- Robert
Schuller

"By in love she meant the acuteness of the heart at the sudden sight of
a particular person or the way over a couple of years of interested
friendship one is suddenly stunned by the lungs' longing for more and more
breath in the presence of that friend." --Grace Paley

"When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in
wisdom." -- Oprah Winfrey

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who
do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." : William
Blake

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"It seems that 'we have never gone to war for conquest, for
exploitation, nor for territory'; we have the word of a president [McKinley] for
that. Observe, now, how Providence overrules the intentions of the truly
good for their advantage. We went to war with Mexico for peace,
humanity and honor, yet emerged from the contest with an extension of
territory beyond the dreams of political avarice. We went to war with Spain for
relief of an oppressed people [the Cubans], and at the close found
ourselves in possession of vast and rich insular dependencies [primarily
the Philippines] and with a pretty tight grasp upon the country for
relief of whose oppressed people we took up arms. We could hardly have
profited more had 'territorial aggrandizement' been the spirit of our
purpose and heart of our hope. The slightest acquaintance with history shows
that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of
nations." : Ambrose Bierce, Warlike America

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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that
which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the
civil authority: Thomas Jefferson: American 3rd US President (1801-09).

"Dance with me? dance with me?all night long? / We are the music?we are
the song." --Nikki Giovanni