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-- Robert Frost It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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-- Patricia Sampson Recreation and Sports I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
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-- Socrates Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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-- Niels Bohr "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Theodore Sturgeon Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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-- Harry Truman Recreation and Sports
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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Charles Caleb Colton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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life 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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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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-- Aesop Recreation and Sports
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Recreation and Sports Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The west wasn't won on salad.
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room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports
