Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- Mary Pettibone Poole These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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-- Helen Rowland Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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-- William Yeats The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Arts and Entertainment Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
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-- Buddy Hackett Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Arts and Entertainment Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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-- Elsa Schiapirelli blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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-- George Santayana We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Arts and Entertainment We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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-- Robert Frost Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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