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-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I think, therefore I'm single.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
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-- Dick Martin Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
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I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Arts and Entertainment
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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-- Epicurus Arts and Entertainment People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Arts and Entertainment The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Arts and Entertainment
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
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"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Arts and Entertainment He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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