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"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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-- Robert Frost Every child is born a genius.
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-- Gore Vidal Secondary Schools
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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-- Mark Twain He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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-- William Gladstone The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Secondary Schools
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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-- Anonymous Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Secondary Schools It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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-- Margaret Mead Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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- A. J. Liebling Secondary Schools
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-- American Proverb Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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-- H. L. Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Secondary Schools
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
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-- Albert Einstein Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
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-- Judith Viorst Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If a man does his best, what else is there?
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-- Albert Einstein Secondary Schools
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Secondary Schools A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Secondary Schools
