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-- Al Capone Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
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-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Carna A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
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Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
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-- William Blake "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Carna
All television is children's television.
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-- Aldous Huxley Carna
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-- Richard P. Adler When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
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-- Malcolm Forbes Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
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-- Jean Cocteau Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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- Lucille S. Harper Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Russell Baker In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Carna
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
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-- P. J God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Carna "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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-- Lord Byron Carna
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Carna The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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