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- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Henry Kissinger "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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-- Rose Kennedy The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
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-- Elbert Hubbard One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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-- Anne Sullivan Shopping
