Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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-- Aristotle LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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-- Groucho Marx Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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-- ROBERT FROST I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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-- Dale Carnegie A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Industries Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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-- Harry Truman Industries
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
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-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein Industries What do you take me for, an idiot?
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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