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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Arts and Entertainment "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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-- Dave Barry A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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-- George Benard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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-- Billie Holliday A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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-- Martin Luther I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Luck is the residue of design.
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-- Walt Kelly It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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-- Eleanor Roosevelt I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
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-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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