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Ten Random Quotes

"Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior."
Max Cleland

"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."
Henrik Ibsen

"There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from."
Charles Schulz

"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
Charles de Lint

"Being awarded the Caldecott is an experience to which one cannot become jaded. I am certain of this and stand ready to endure any effort to prove otherwise."
Charles Van Allsburg

"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"
e. e. cummings

"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."
Franz Kafka

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive."
Rodney Dangerfield

"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood."
Norman Cousins

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