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-- Virginia Woolf Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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-- Mark Twain The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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-- Voltaire Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Sun Tzu I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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- Robert Frost Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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-- Woody Allen It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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-- Agatha Christie Camps and Camping The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Camps and Camping
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Camps and Camping "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Dave Barry Camps and Camping
