Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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-- Mike Binder Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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-- Paulo Freire Arts and Entertainment After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Douglas Coupland Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment 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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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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-- Adolf Hitler Arts and Entertainment A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
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-- Anon. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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-- Theodor Reik My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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-- Albert Camus Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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