The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco Hotels Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Albert Einstein Hotels
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- Voltaire I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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-- James Holt McGavran True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates Hotels My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Hotels
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
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-- Henry Ford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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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-- Anonymous Hotels cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
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