"We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”

Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.
“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
“Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)”
“It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.”
“The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.”
“Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.”
“Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.”
“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”

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