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-- Joan Crawford Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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- Art Buchwald I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
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-- H. L. Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Hotels A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- G. K. Chesterton Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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-- Herman Melville To teach is to learn twice.
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Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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