No Jamescontent to fill in; so instead you get quotations!
“Joyous! How is one to tell about joy? How describe the citizens of Omelas?"
--from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Do you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do... they make people love you a little less."
--Ammu, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
--Miss Maudie Atkinson, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
“I laugh because I must not cry.”
--Abraham Lincoln
“…for the states below reason and the states above it have, by their common contrast to the life we know, a certain superficial resemblance. Sometimes there returns to us from infancy the memory of a nameless delight or terror, unattached to any delightful or dreadful thing, a potent adjective floating in a nounless void, a pure quality. At such moments we have experience of the shallows of that pool.”
--from That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
“The world must be coming to an end. Children no longer obey their parents, and every man wants to write a book.”
--Author unknown, but attributed to an Assyrian stone tablet (dated 2,800 B.C.E.)
“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.”
--Dogbert, Dilbert by Scott Adams
“An eye for an eye will simply leave us all blind.”
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
--Admiral Croft, Persuasion by Jane Austen
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”
--Ecclesiastes 1:9 [You: “But James, why have a Bible verse here? By your own admission, you are not deeply religious – at least in the traditional Protestant sense.” Me: “True, true. But, where else can I find Hutton’s Principle of Uniformitarianism spelled out in such a straightforward manner!”]
“Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
--from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
--Ludwig van Beethoven
“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”
--Benjamin Disraeli
“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
--Henry Trudeau