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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“In nature there are no rewards or punishments: there are consequences.”
― Horace Annesley Vachell, The Face of Clay: An Interpretation

“Truth without compassion is brutality.”
― Shanti Fader

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.”
― H.R. Trevor-Roper

“The emotional excess of music felt more real than the muted emotion and soft demeanor I expressed in daily life. When I was this passionately engaged I didn't need anything else to "complete" me; not a man, not a career affirmation. I only had to give in to the music to live an immense life that I could experience any time I chose.”
― Barbara Feldon, Living Alone and Loving It

“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
― Ernie Kovacs

“Most men believe deep down that all women, even those they see on television, are potential mates.”
― Michael J. Nelson, Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese

“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

“The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.”
― Shirley MacLaine

“Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat.”
― Joanne Woodward

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― James Baldwin

“Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.”
― Meredith Willson, The Music Man

“Events do not reflect God's choices. They happen at random, and randomness is another name for chaos… And chaos is evil; not wrong, not malevolent, but evil nonetheless.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

“Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.”
― George Burns

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
― Methodist Pastor David Barnhart