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A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
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- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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-- Darcy E. Gibbons Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Travel and Tourism
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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machi Travel and Tourism blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Travel and Tourism Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
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-- Anon. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Travel and Tourism As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism
