<p>"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."-Flannery O'Connor</p>
<p>"Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."-Bill Cosby</p>
<p>"Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of knowing you did the best you could in order to become the best you are capable of being."-John Wooden</p>
<p>"Competitive greatness is being at your best when your best is needed."-John Wooden</p>
<p>"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough." - Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis romanus sum [I am a Roman citizen]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner'… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!' ~john f kennedy</p>
<p>"From what I understand, if you cut out all the passages in the Bible where Jesus talks about the poor, about helping out the least among us, you'd have the perfect container to smuggle Rush Limbaugh's drugs in."</p>
<p>"I stood on the bed, pointing one of my fingers at the fake stars, and screamed: "I changed the course of human history!" "That's right." "I changed the universe!" "You did." "I'm God!" "You're an atheist." "I don't exist!""
-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathon Safran Foer.</p>
<p>"This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"
-Everything is Illuminated, by Johnathan Safran Foer.</p>
<p>""Women dont want equal rights. They have more power being oppressed. They need men to be the vast enemy conspiracy. Their whole identity is built on it.""
-Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk</p>
<p>"I don't believe in the moon; I think it's just the back of the sun."
-Scrubs</p>
<p>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead. </p>
<p>"Do you think squirrels think about why they are here? That gathering nuts and getting run over by cars has some higher purpose? No. Humans believe they are in some kind of "best species" competition." -anonymous.</p>
<p>"Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? “Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”"</p>
<p>OUT of the night that covers me,<br>
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,<br>
I thank whatever gods may be<br>
For my unconquerable soul. </p>
<p>In the fell clutch of circumstance 5
I have not winced nor cried aloud.<br>
Under the bludgeonings of chance<br>
My head is bloody, but unbowed. </p>
<p>Beyond this place of wrath and tears<br>
Looms but the Horror of the shade, 10
And yet the menace of the years<br>
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. </p>
<p>It matters not how strait the gate,<br>
How charged with punishments the scroll,<br>
I am the master of my fate: 15
I am the captain of my soul. </p>
<p>(best poem ever. best quote: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.)</p>