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-- Oscar Wilde When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Sting Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Localities "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard Localities
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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be The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Localities "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- Anonymous Localities Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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brand new ending.
-- Anonymous This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Localities We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- Jerry Olson The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- Herbert Hoover Localities If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
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they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Localities This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Localities
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He who limps is still walking.
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-- Kingsley Amis Localities Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Localities
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Localities Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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