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Monday, June 27, 2011

Monday Quotes

1. Life is full of needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when alrger matters are at stake, and they remain in the mind they are fogotten, so that in years later, it is a bit of gilding, or a certain smell , or the tone of clockt's striking which recalls one to a tragedy. --Evelyn Waugh

2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with snse, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei

3. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. --James Thurber

4. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A. A. Milne

5. Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?  --Anon.