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-- Woody Allen "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
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-- Iris Murdoch A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
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-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- E. B. White The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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-- Euripides I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
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-- William Faulkner This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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-- Unknown history student Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
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-- Dale Carnegie You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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--Malcolm X "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
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-- George E. Woodberry Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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