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In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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-- Mark Twain A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crowf I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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-- Max Beerbohm "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Arts and Entertainment The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Arts and Entertainment The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
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-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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-- Hunter S. Thompson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
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-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Arts and Entertainment If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
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