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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Venues The west wasn't won on salad.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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-- Mike Adams Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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-- Damon Runyan Clubs and Venues Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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a fortune The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
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"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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-- Thornton Wilder Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Clubs and Venues Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
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"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Politics have no relation to morals.
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influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In the end, everything is a gag.
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I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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as The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I married beneath me. All women do.
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