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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Vince Lombardi "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
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The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Horace Walpole Web Rings A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
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-- Abraham Maslow Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Web Rings We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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