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-- Benjamin Tillett If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Comics Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Comics
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Comics Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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-- Bill Stern Comics
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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-- Shirley MacLaine Someday is not a day of the week.
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-- Betty Shabazz Comics
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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-- Flannery O'Connor Comics "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
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-- Molly Ivins Comics
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Abraham Lincoln Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan Comics 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Comics
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-- Yogi Berra Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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