"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Anonymous A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Sporting Goods "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
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-- Gandhi Sporting Goods
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. May you never leave your marriage alive. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Sporting Goods And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Sporting Goods
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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nerves When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Sporting Goods
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
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-- George Bernard Shaw Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Sporting Goods "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Sporting Goods
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
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-- Yogi Berra Sporting Goods
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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-- John Galsworthy Sporting Goods
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
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-- St. Francis of Assisi The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sporting Goods
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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-- Shecky Greene "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Sporting Goods Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sporting Goods
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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