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"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- G. K. Chesterton Ikaria If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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-- Woody Allen You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Jean Cocteau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
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-- Gore Vidal There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Ikaria
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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-- James Thurber Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Ikaria
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Paul Dirac Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The better part of valor is discretion.
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-- Richard Bach Ikaria "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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