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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
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-- Frank W. Woolworth History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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Never moon a werewolf.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
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-- Tom Lehrer Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
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