"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
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"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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-- Stephen Leacock The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
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-- Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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-- Guy Kawasaki Travel and Tourism An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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ha Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
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-- Abbie M. Dale Travel and Tourism When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
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-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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