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-- Voltaire The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Jim Backus What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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- Socrates Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Arts and Entertainment
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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- Georg Lichtenberg Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
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-- Zora Neale Hurston "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Arts and Entertainment
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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computer that th He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Arts and Entertainment There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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- Goethe Arts and Entertainment
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Arts and Entertainment A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Arts and Entertainment I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
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-- Judith Viorst "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Arts and Entertainment
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-- Michael Meissner Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Arts and Entertainment "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) This book fills a much-needed gap.
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-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Arts and Entertainment Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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