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-- Fred Allen Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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-- Oscar Wilde Property
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-- E. B. White "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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-- Groucho Marx Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Property
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- G. K. Chesterton Property
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-- Oscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
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is Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Property "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Property
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-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Gen. George Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Property The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Property
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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-- H. L. Mencken Property I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Property "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Property
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
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-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Dale Carnegie When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Property
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Property
