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-- Otto von Bismarck The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Industries Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Horace Walpole Industries A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Industries
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
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-- Vladimir Nabokov Industries When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Oscar Wilde Industries
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "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) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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per This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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