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Once again, here are some quotes I’ve run across that I thought were worth keeping. Previous quotations: Random Quotes

Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins?”
— Milan Kundera

To kill that particular monster [time] is the most ordinary and legitimate occupation of each person.”
— Baudelaire

Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent, not by 1 percent.”
— Edward Denison

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save, they just stand there shining.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”
— Louise Bogan, Journey Around My Room, The Autobiography of Louise Bogan

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
— British economist John Maynard Keynes in a letter to Duncan Grant.

The sun even shines on a dog’s ass some days.” — Bart (George Carlin)
Greenie (Stephen Root): “You gettin’ a dog?”
— Jersey Girl, 2004

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
— William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

Children and animals have a hard time in this world.”
— Alice Hammond

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena, excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic", delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910