"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Aristotle Onassis At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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- Lewis Perelman Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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-- Paul Valery "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Travel and Tourism
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Bertolt Brecht Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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-- Peter DeVries What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Travel and Tourism Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber What do you take me for, an idiot?
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- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
To love another person is to see the face of God.
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Travel and Tourism
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Travel and Tourism
