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Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gambling The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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-- T. S. Eliot Gambling
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-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Gambling If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous Gambling
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Gambling The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
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-- Will Rogers Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Gambling
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-- Beverly Sills Gambling "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Gambling
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Gambling "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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-- Oscar Wilde Gambling
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Hell is other people.
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- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Gambling
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- General George Patton Gambling "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Gambling
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Gambling blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Gambling
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Gambling With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Gambling
