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-- Marcus Aurelius One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Anatole France Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Robert Browning Shopping
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- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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-- Cass Daley "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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-- John Stuart Mill Shopping
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-- Lord Rutherford It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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--Malcolm X Shopping
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-- Kant, Immanuel A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
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-- Malcolm Forbes The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Epperson's law:
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-- Hen All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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- Thomas Jefferson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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