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"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead." -Robert G. Ingersoll

"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing." -Roger Caras

"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need." -Karl Marx

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Sir Winston Churchill

"All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it." -'Columbia Record'

"Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave." -'Detroit Journal'

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." -Norman Mailer

"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies." -H. L. Mencken

"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice." -Adlai Stevenson

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top." -Timothy Leary

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." -George Orwell, A Collection of Essays

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." -Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student

"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has." -Randolph Bourne, Youth and Life

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have

neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." -John W. Gardner

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -Aristotle, Politics

"To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain." -George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818

"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything." -Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock, 1931

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." -Sir Winston Churchill

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." -Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." -Fletcher, Love's Cure, 1647

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything." -Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." -James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, 1870

"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." -Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, 1911

"Solitude is the playfield of Satan." -Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." -Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950

"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws." -Publilius Syrus, Moral

Sayings

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire." -Jules Renard, Journal, December 1900

"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." -Roger Rosenblatt, The Man in the Water, 1994

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills." -Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character." -Stendhal, On Love, 1822

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude." -Miguel de Unanimo, Essays and Soliloquies, 1924

"We are rarely proud when we are alone." -Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end." -Kahlil Gibran, "Anthem of Humanity"

"The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty." -Alain, Definitions, 1953

"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body." -George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Art, 1906

"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." -George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense, 1906

"The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel." -Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets." -John Glenn

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.

I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." -Neil Armstrong

"The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -Mark Russell

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things." -Woody Allen

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Confucius

"'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain." -Walter Dwight, The Saving Sense

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." -Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." -Ralph W. Sockman

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." -Leo Rosten

"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." -Madame Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine

"I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet." -Carry Nation

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizen in a Republic", April 23, 1910

"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself." -Robert Burton