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  • Toeprint
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    #1186
    "Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "
    — Douglas Macarthur

    bansaisequoia
    September 30, 2009, 1:34 am
    Is it liberty if you're in chains?

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      #1187
      "To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
      — George Santayana

      bansaisequoia
      January 7, 2011, 12:58 am
      Yabba gabbish ipple?

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      • Toeprint
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        #1188
        "Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. "
        — Proverb

        bansaisequoia
        September 16, 2012, 5:12 pm
        If the trees were ents, we could say, "Run, Forrest, run!" But ents do everything slowly. ( 'I have brought you about seventy thousand ent-strides, but what that comes to in the measurement of your land I do not know.'--Treebeard)

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        • Toeprint
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          #1189
          "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
          — Abraham Lincoln

          bansaisequoia
          August 27, 2009, 9:48 pm
          Then how did George W Bush get to be my president?

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          • Toeprint
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            #1190
            "Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?"
            — Edith Sitwell

            gryhnd51
            August 15, 2009, 6:47 pm
            my favorite quote for sure!
            bansaisequoia
            August 25, 2009, 11:46 pm
            "Where the satyrs are chattering, nymphs with their flattering glimpse of the forest enhance All the beauty of marrow and cucumber narrow and Ceres will join in the dance. Where the satyrs can flatter the flat-leaved fruit and the gherkin green and the marrow, Said Queen Venus, 'Silenus, we'll settle between us the gourd and the cucumber narrow."-- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)

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            • Toeprint
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              #1191
              "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
              — Dan Quayle

              bansaisequoia
              February 6, 2011, 5:46 pm
              If we put Dan in exile.

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                #1192
                "Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."
                — Talmud

                bansaisequoia
                April 12, 2010, 8:18 pm
                We have rebelled.

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                • Toeprint
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                  #1193
                  "After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. "
                  — H.L. Mencken

                  pootie49
                  March 30, 2009, 6:58 pm
                  and voila cryptograms.org
                  sonofcarc
                  July 1, 2009, 5:41 pm
                  Who -- Shakespeare?
                  maradnu
                  July 3, 2009, 1:28 am
                  Mencken talking about himself again?
                  bansaisequoia
                  September 7, 2009, 12:19 am
                  John Bartlett?

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                    #1194
                    "There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. "
                    — Napoleon Hill

                    bonsaisekuoia
                    February 25, 2010, 3:02 pm
                    Therefore, if I don't acknowledge my limitations, I'm omniscient.

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                    • Toeprint
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                      #1195
                      "Poetry: the best words in the best order."
                      — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

                      [Note: The colon was not in the original puzzle. It has since been added.]

                      saipanwriter
                      July 29, 2011, 2:40 am
                      It seems like there should be some form of punctuation between the word poetry and the rest of the phrase.
                      bansaisequoia
                      March 12, 2012, 6:30 pm
                      This doesn't seem to be an example of the best words in the best order.

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                      • Toeprint
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                        #1196
                        "Fools gawp at masterpieces - wise men set out to outdo masterpieces. "
                        — Unattributed

                        bansaisequoia
                        August 28, 2009, 7:33 pm
                        gawp?
                        Lurker
                        September 4, 2009, 2:28 pm
                        Webster's: To stare open-mouthed; gawk or gape

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                          #1197
                          "They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
                          — Jeanette Winterson

                          bansaisequoia
                          May 22, 2010, 3:35 pm
                          I've undergone years of intense therapy after having seen unique snowflakes as a child.

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                            #1198
                            "Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies."
                            — Ann Landers

                            peejay
                            July 26, 2009, 4:08 pm
                            Except for Benjamin Button.
                            bonszaisequioa
                            February 22, 2010, 11:31 am
                            And Merlin in "The Once And Future King."

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                            • Toeprint
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                              #1199
                              "The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner."
                              — Hebrew Proverb

                              bansaisequoia
                              January 31, 2012, 8:53 pm
                              I'm the kind of man who's a cruel beast to his beast.

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                                #1200
                                "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. "
                                — Thomas Carlyle

                                bansaisequoia
                                July 28, 2011, 2:39 pm
                                If I'm lucky, I may receive such remuneration before retirement.

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