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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- Slavoj Zizek Epperson's law:
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-- Peter De Vries Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
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Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports Such is life.
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