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-- Karl Barth Joensuu
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I have read your book and much like it.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Joensuu
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Such is life.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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-- Arnold Toynbee Joensuu
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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-- Benjamin Tillett Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Joensuu "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Joensuu
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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