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-- Oscar Wilde I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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-- Prince I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
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-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- E. W. Howe A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- Tom Robbins The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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-- Will Rogers "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only the little people pay taxes.
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- Bertrand Russell
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-- William Wordsworth Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
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-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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