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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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-- Mme de Staël Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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-- Mother Teresa The covers of this book are too far apart.
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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-- Ed Howe There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
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- Aristotle Onassis Is there life before death?
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-- American Proverb Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
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-- Chinese Proverb Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
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If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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-- Robert A. Humphrey Games A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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Someday is not a day of the week.
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-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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