Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 Travel and Tourism Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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-- Henry David Thoreau Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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-- Chris Hubbock, who sh In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- John Renmerde Travel and Tourism
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Travel and Tourism Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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-- Groucho Marx In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- Caroline Rhea People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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- Robert Orben Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My other wife is beautiful. Travel and Tourism
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-- Anonymous Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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