Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The covers of this book are too far apart.
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-- Mother Teresa Localities
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Men have become the tools of their tools.
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passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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-- Anonymous When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Localities "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
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-- Robert Frost If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Localities The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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me in the cellar.
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-- Publilius Syrus If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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-- Robert Frost Localities He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Dorothy Parker Localities
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Fred Allen Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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