Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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-- Abraham Lincoln We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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-- Anonymous "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Basketball
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-- Richard Rosen When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Euripides Basketball
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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-- Albert Einstein Basketball
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-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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A billboard lovely as a tree.
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-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Basketball If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Basketball
