Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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-- Luther Burbank, dying words To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Industries I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
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-- Erica Jong Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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-- Clarence Darrow The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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-- Chinese Proverb It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
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-- Clarence Darrow "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, It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Industries
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Industries "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Helen Keller Industries
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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-- Sophocles We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous Industries I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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-- H. L. Mencken Industries
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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-- Cybi Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Industries
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Industries I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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