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-- Paulo Freire Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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-- Betty Shabazz Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Travel and Tourism If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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will A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Travel and Tourism Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Travel and Tourism
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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and in that Travel and Tourism Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
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- Steven Wright Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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