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"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."	Herbert Butterfield
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."	George Gordon Byron
"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Albert Camus
"Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight."	Swedish Carol
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"There is no place more delightful than home."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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.
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."	Charles Robert Darwin
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone."	Thomas De Quincey
"Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles."	Marquis de Sade
"The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way."	Marquis de Sade
"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."	E. L. Doctorow
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."	Maurice Druon
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."	Richard J. Ferris
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."	Kahlil Gibran
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."	Kahlil Gibran
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."	Arlo Guthrie
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Dame Edna Everage	Danielle Donoho	Dbjanski
Deane Jordan	Deciderius Erasmus	Doris Lessing
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
Dwight Lyman Moody	Earl Nightingale	Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	Elizabeth Bowen	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Idle	Eugène Ionesco	Euripides
E. L. Doctorow	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Ferdinand Hodler
Forest McDonald	Frank L. Boyden	Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon
François Maurice Mitterrand	Fred Allen	Frederick Douglass
F(rancis) Scott	George Eliot	Georges Bataille
Georges Bernanos	George Gordon Byron	George Jean Nathan
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Guy Lynch	Haniel Long
Hannah More	Harry Emerson Fosdick	Hazrat Inayat Khan
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry C. Blinn	Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield
Homer	Horace Greeley	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Albert Michener	James Arthur Baldwin	Janet Louise Holman
Jean Baudrillard	Jennie Jerome Churchill	Jesse Lair
Jesse Louis Jackson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Milton
John Berry	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Josh Billings	Julie Burchill	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	K. D. Lang
Lao-Tzu	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon	Maurice Freehill
Maya Angelou	Michael J. Gelb	Michel Leiris
Michio Kushi	Miguel de Cervantes	Minnie Haskins
Mohammed Daud Khan	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Montagu Butler
Morris Mandel	M. Hirschfield	Napoleon I
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Newt Gingrich	Og Mandino
Oliver Goldsmith	Oprah Winfrey	Peter Hoeg
Prince Otto	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard J. Ferris	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robertson Davies
Robert Maynard Hutchins	Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns
Saint Thomas Aquinas	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sam Ewing
Sarah McLachlan	Siddha Nagarjuna	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	Sri da Avabhas
Susanna Moodie	Swedish Carol	Taylor Benson
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas De Quincey	Tom Fitzgerald
Truman Capote	Victor Hugo	William Ellery Channing
William Hallman	William Hiram Foulkes	William H(oward) Gass
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