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truth
Submitted by mivox on 1 November, 2007 - 11:31pm.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark ...
It scares you witless,
but in time you see things clear and stark.

— Elvis Costello, I Want You

vindictively american
Submitted by mivox on 5 July, 2007 - 1:50pm.

"Personally, I am too vindictively American, too full of hate for the hateful aspects of this country, and too possessed by the things I love here to be too long away."

— Ralph Ellison

to succeed
Submitted by mivox on 27 May, 2007 - 12:38pm.

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

— Clare Boothe Luce

madness
Submitted by mivox on 9 May, 2007 - 2:08pm.

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You musn't lose it."

— Robin Williams

right and wrong
Submitted by mivox on 27 April, 2007 - 2:46pm.

"I'd be happy about being right if I wasn't always right about the wrong things."

— R.K. Milholland

conquer yourself
Submitted by mivox on 27 April, 2007 - 2:46pm.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

— Siddartha Buddha

war
Submitted by mivox on 17 December, 2006 - 12:01pm.

"Laws are silent in time of war."

— Cicero

drowning
Submitted by mivox on 16 December, 2006 - 1:31pm.

If we could all join hands, all around the world... five-eighths of us would drown.

— anon.

reputation
Submitted by mivox on 18 May, 2006 - 11:11am.

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was."

— Margaret Mitchell

O'Keefe on Flowers
Submitted by mivox on 13 April, 2006 - 10:03am.

"I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

— Georgia O'Keefe

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