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-- Nikki Giovanni Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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-- Gandhi "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
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Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Killala
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-- Anatole France Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
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-- Thomas Jefferson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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-- Ludwig Wittgenstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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-- ROBERT FROST You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- Buckminster Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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-- Oscar Levant I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Killala
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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