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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. – Elizabeth Berg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. – Mary Bertone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. – Claude T Bissell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. – Claude T Bissell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. – F. F. Bosworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. – Gene Brown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. – Joseph Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. – John le Carre	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. – Jennie Jerome Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. – John Anthony Ciardi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule) – L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms. – Philip K. Dick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. – John George Diefenbaker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. – Johannes Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. – Jill Eikenberry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. – Henry Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. – Shakti Gawain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A Hospital is no place to be sick. – Samuel Goldwyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing. – Donna Hedges	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. – Richard Hofstadter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. – Bob Hope	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. – Ruth Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning. – Paul Ingram	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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