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"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Agatha Christie "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Oerlinghausen Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Oerlinghausen
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
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cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Oerlinghausen
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Nobody ever died of laughter.
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Oerlinghausen
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
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-- Ralph N. Gerard Oerlinghausen
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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- A. J. Liebling Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
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-- John Stuart Mill Oerlinghausen
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Oerlinghausen
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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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-- Anton Chekhov Oerlinghausen The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Oerlinghausen
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Anonymous When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Oerlinghausen