Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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- Robert Orben "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Industries The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci Industries
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Industries Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
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-- Andrew Brown Industries
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
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more letter she'd have to remember.
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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- John Stuart Mill Industries
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Industries "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Industries Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
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is a chance."
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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-- Thornton Wilder Industries
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Industries "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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-- Katharine Hepburn Industries
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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-- Joan Crawford Industries Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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-- George bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Industries
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Industries "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Industries
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
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