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- George Eliot Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Radio blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Never moon a werewolf.
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-- Tom Robbins Radio
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Radio "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Radio
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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-- Voltaire He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Radio
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Douglas Adams There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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-- Groucho Marx Radio The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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-- Sydney Smith Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Agatha Christie We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
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-- Peter DeVries Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Radio If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Radio
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous Radio If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Radio
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Radio It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Radio
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Radio "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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