If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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- Plato "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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-- Virginia Woolf They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
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- Aristotle And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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-- Irwin Sarason Sikinos "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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-- Lewis Grizzard Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Charles Caleb Colton "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W 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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-- Anthony Burgess Sikinos This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
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