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I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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-- Walter Prager Buses
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-- Mark Twain No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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-- George de Benneville The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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-- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Buses
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-- Mae West "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Buses Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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