Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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-- George Bernard Shaw For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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-- Will Rogers When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
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-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Honor lies in honest toil.
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Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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-- Maurice Maeterlink Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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- Plato The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- John Heisman This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Kenny Ausubel Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Arts and Entertainment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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