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Below are many quotes that I find inspirational, philosophical, and/or humorous.  There are some that I only partially believe in, but I have them posted as I feel they couldbe useful to others.  If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorousor any combination of those... send it to me via e-mail,and I will post it up as long as I approve of it.  If your quote is posted, I will give you credit and provide a link to your page.

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"A laugh is a terrible weapon."
- Kate O'Brien

"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"As long as men are free to ask what they must -- free to say what they think -- free to think what they will -- freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
- Robert Orben

"When we drink, we get drunk.
 When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
 When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
 When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
 Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
- Brian O'Rourke

"Big Brother is watching you."
- George Orwell, from "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
- George Orwell

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind."
- George Orwell

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
- George Orwell

"You are noticed more if you stand on your head than you are if you are the right way up."
- George Orwell

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.  Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.  World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.  Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."
- Arthur O'Shaunessey

"Watch your thoughts, they become words.
 Watch your words, they become actions.
 Watch your actions, they become habits.
 Watch your habits, they become your character.
 Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."
- Frank Outlaw

"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through."
- Harry A. Overstreet


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