"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
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-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
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- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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-- Colin Wilson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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