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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin



I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974



The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda



Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone. ~Vince Hemingson



Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~John Muir



If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright



Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will



Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896



Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. ~Lee Loevinger



The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)



I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~George Carlin



Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston



Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown



I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, 1981