"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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-- Benjamin Franklin Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Mother Teresa Industries
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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-- Will Rogers Industries
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Industries
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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-- Ralph Marston Industries A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
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-- Crow Industries
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis Industries Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Industries
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Industries
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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-- Racine I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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-- Johnny Carson Facts are the enemy of truth.
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-- Ed Howe The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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