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-- Billy Sunday As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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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 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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--Don Galer "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Andrew Brown "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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-- Wilson Mizner "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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-- Albert Einstein "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Access Providers
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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-- Dean Acheson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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