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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Legal Spinster: A bachelor's wife. >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Legal
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Legal This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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-- Sigmund Freud Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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physician Legal A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Legal
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-- Joan Borysenko The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Legal A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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-- Anonymous He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Legal
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Legal "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Legal
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Legal Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- George Santayana Legal Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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-- Dave Barry Legal
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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- Napoleon Bonaparte Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Legal A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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-- S. T. Coleridge He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Legal
"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) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Legal "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee Legal
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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.
-- Crow Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Legal "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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-- Albert Einstein Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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