"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e We are the echo of the future.
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-- Mao Tse-tung "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Franchising In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Franchising
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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of The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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chara "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Franchising I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Franchising
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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--Loesje Franchising When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Franchising
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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-- Calvin Coolidge Franchising
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
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-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Franchising
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anon Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
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one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Franchising
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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-- Chinese Proverb Franchising
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Franchising Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Tom Stoppard We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Franchising
