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-- Paul Boese Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Cynthia H "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Thomas Jones A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Ratekau Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- Gloria Leonard "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ratekau
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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