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I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Butlerstown All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Butlerstown
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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- Mel Brooks Butlerstown The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Butlerstown
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
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mother.
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-- Mae West "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
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-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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-- Hyman Rickover Butlerstown When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Butlerstown Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Butlerstown
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Butlerstown
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Butlerstown If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Butlerstown
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Count your age with friends but not with years.
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-- John Wesley Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Butlerstown
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Butlerstown "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Butlerstown
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Butlerstown A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow Butlerstown
