I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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- Albert Einstein Hotels A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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- Carl Gustav Jung By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- G. K. Chesterton I would have made a good Pope.
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- Goethe Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Hotels Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Hotels
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
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-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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- Socrates Hotels If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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-- James Thurber If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hotels
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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-- Ha "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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-- Colin Wilson He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Hotels
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Andre Norton A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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