A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Industries The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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-- Pearl Williams Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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-- Anonymous Industries "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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-- Winnie the Pooh Industries
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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-- Rose Franken It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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- Ambrose Bierce A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Industries
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
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the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Industries Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Industries
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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- e e cummings The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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-- Fran Lebowitz Industries "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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-- Ralph N. Gerard Industries
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Adlai Stevenson Industries Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Industries
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Industries The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Industries
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- Vladimir Nabokov Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Industries I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Phillip Brooks Industries
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
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-- William James "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Industries What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Sydney Smith Industries In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Industries
