Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) then the world 's mine oyster
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"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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-- Montesquieu "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) What do you take me for, an idiot?
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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
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Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein More light!
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-- Rita Mae Brown Parties Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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-- Peter Ustinov "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Parties
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- Fran Lebowitz Parties Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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