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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gambling
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Gambling No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Gambling "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Gambling
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Gambling Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Gambling
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Gambling He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Gambling
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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-- Allen Ginsberg I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Gambling
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
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-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Gambling Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Gambling
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-- Bill Moyers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Gambling Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Gambling
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-- Charles Evans Hughes Gambling
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Gambling Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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run his, either.
-- Anonymous Gambling
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Gambling There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Gambling
