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-- Shecky Greene Ministries
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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-- Dave Barry Ministries
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- Bertrand Russell
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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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-- Sidney Goff Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
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-- Samuel Johnson Ministries
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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- Isaac Asimov I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- Carol Leifer If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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-- Voltaire Ministries
