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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
- Alfred Tennyson, from "In Memoriam"

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Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
- Miguel de Cervantes

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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert Heinlein

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I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
- Michael Ventre

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally, the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
- Robert Ingersoll

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An informal survey shows that what most people want for Christmas is two more weeks to prepare for it.
- Bob Stanley

Happy Festivus!

Once again, I would like to wish all my readers (both of you) a wonderful Festivus!

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
- Kin Hubbard

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
- Rita Mae Brown

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If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
- Confucius

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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and words only to conceal their thoughts.
- Voltaire

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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget about traditional Character assassination. If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
- P.J. O'Rourke

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

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At school I was taught that money isn’t everything and that the most important thing is to be good. When my mother found out, I had to change schools immediately.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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The fool wonders; the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
- Carol Burnett

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Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
- General George Patton

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
- Confucious

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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
- W. C. Fields

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- Steven Wright

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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Werner von Braun

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Marcel Archard