"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Winston Churchill Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
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-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Local Currency Systems
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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-- John-Paul Sartre Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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-- Joseph Addison Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- E. B. White Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Local Currency Systems Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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-- Aristotle Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Local Currency Systems We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Local Currency Systems
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
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-- Arthur C. Clarke I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Local Currency Systems Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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