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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I still live.
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-- Isadora Duncan The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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-- Henry David Thoreau Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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Thought is action in rehearsal.
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-- Mark Russell The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Flowers and Gifts
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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-- Mark Twain Flowers and Gifts
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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-- Oscar Wilde War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
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-- Albert Einstein Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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-- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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-- Anatole France Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Flowers and Gifts
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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-- Sydney Smith ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Flowers and Gifts
