It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
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-- Malcolm Forbes Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Pets "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- Eleanor Roosevelt Pets
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Anatole France Pets Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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-- Al Capone Pets
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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-- Al Capp Pets We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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-- Moliere Pets
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Pets If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Pets
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Pets Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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-- Maya Angelou Pets
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 Pets We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
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