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-- Albert Schweitzer "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Car Rentals
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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Epperson's law:
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I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
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-- John Cage The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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