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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
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-- Ben Hecht Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Billy Joel "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- John Cage Travel and Tourism
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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