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"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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-- Oscar Wilde Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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-- Cicero Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' National Parks Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx National Parks
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) National Parks We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) National Parks
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
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-- Martin Mull National Parks
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Children are a poor man's riches.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot National Parks
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) National Parks And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov National Parks
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
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