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the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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-- Wil Shriner Mitchelstown
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Mitchelstown "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
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-- Will Rogers In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Mitchelstown
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Early to rise and early to bed.
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-- James Thurber "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Mitchelstown Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Helen Rowland Mitchelstown
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Mitchelstown Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Mitchelstown
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "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." We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Mitchelstown In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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-- Bertrand Russell It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Mitchelstown Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Mitchelstown
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-- Hunter S. Thompson There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Mitchelstown He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Mitchelstown
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Mitchelstown "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone Mitchelstown "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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