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“The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either explained, allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.”
―Robert Green Ingersoll

“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.”
―Fran Lebowitz

Source/Notes:
Letters (p. 144) - Metropolitan Life (1974)

“All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.”
―Nicholas Sparks

“In the Americas its impact has been irresistible. America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life — a life that should be new in freedom.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Third Inaugural Address (1941)

“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.”
―Vincent Van Gogh

“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”
―Ivan Turgenev

“Every institution goes through three stages — utility, privilege, and abuse.”
―François-René de Chateaubriand

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Culture and Progress (1930) by Wilson Dallam Wallis

“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
―Khalil Gibran

Source/Notes:
Sand and Foam (1926)

“I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.”
―Henny Youngman

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
―Meister Eckhart

“The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.”
―Epicurus

“He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.”
―Arthur Conan Doyle

Source/Notes:
The Final Problem (1893)

“Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.”
―Franz Kafka

Source/Notes:
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source/Notes:
December 11, 1964

“If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.”
―Muhammad Ali

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Muhammad Ali by George Plimpton in The TIME 100 in TIME (14 June 1999)

“We know our cause is just. Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain nonviolent and free of hatred. We are trying to end the suffering of our people, not to inflict suffering on others.”
―Dalai Lama

Source/Notes:
Speech accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Stockholm, 10 December 1989

“I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.”
―George Washington

“A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.”
―John Locke

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