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-- Ovid History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- John Steinbeck Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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-- Mae West Travel and Tourism I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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-- Joan Crawford All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
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-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
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-- Woody Allen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Anon. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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