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-- Lucille S. Harper If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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-- Herman Melville Thought is action in rehearsal.
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-- Oscar Levant The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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-- Rodney Dangerfield In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Yogi Berra "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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-- G. K. Chesterton Brabant Wallon It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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-- William Jennings Bryant Do or do not. There is no try.
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-- John Stuart Mill The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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-- Socrates Brabant Wallon
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-- Robert Browning Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brabant Wallon Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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