Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop
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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. – Albert Szent-Györgyi
Mammals: a family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say its a sense of humor. If youve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive. – Phil Keoghan
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they werent guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. – John Grisham