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A age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener ("Space")
Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
-- James Madison
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
-- James Thurber
So where are all the lust-crazed engineering groupies that my college recruiter talked about ?
-- James Knowles
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
"Any synopsis of a good book is a stupid synopsis."
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Do just once what others say you can't do,
and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
-- James R. Cook
"Words sound stupid--look into my eyes."
-- Michael Stipe
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

-- Michel de Montaigne
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton
"It isn't premarital sex if you don't get married."
-- Michael Juster
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell
"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?"
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If I have seen further than other men, it is by stepping on their glasses.
-- Michael Swaine
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
-- James Fenimore Cooper
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
-- Michael Sinz