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-- Virginia Woolf What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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-- Groucho Marx "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Campsites Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- English proverb Campsites
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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-- Bertrand Russell If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Campsites "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Campsites
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Campsites Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "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) Campsites
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Campsites "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Campsites
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Campsites Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Campsites Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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of grac "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Campsites I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Thoreau If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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