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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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-- D. H. Lawrence An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
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-- Winston Churchill All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Arts and Entertainment The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Charles Brower Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Arts and Entertainment What do you take me for, an idiot?
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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-- George bernard Shaw "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Abraham Lincoln Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
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