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Christopher Hitchens - The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more
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Christopher Hitchens - Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!
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Eleanor Mondale - I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas
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William Shakespeare - I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

Thomas Fuller - An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Voltaire - He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Sidney Madwed - You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Olive Schreiner - My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

R. W. Dale - We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

Bruce Henderson - The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Christina Rossetti - Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Chief Joseph - Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

John Greenleaf Whittier - For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"

Sir Henry Wotton - An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Emily Bronte - Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Oscar Wilde - It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Michael Shermer - It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Alanis Morissette - We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Longfellow - Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
but has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs.

Harpo Marx - The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Abraham Lincoln - In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

David Weatherford - We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

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