When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- John Renmerde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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-- Arthur Schopenhauer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
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- Art Buchwald Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Ahad HaAm When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Arts and Entertainment
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Arts and Entertainment
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Arts and Entertainment And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
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-- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Steven Wright Man and wife make one fool. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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