And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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-- Lao Tzu Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Bands and Artists Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Bands and Artists
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Maurice Maeterlink Bands and Artists "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
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-- Mark Russell Bands and Artists
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-- Wernher Von Braun Bands and Artists
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
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-- Winston Churchill We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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-- Ayn Rand Bands and Artists
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bands and Artists I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Bands and Artists It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Charles Caleb Colton Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Bands and Artists "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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- Jean-Paul Sartre Bands and Artists
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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