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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
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The best defense is a good offense.
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-- Betty Bender Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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- Henry Ford It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Alphonse Karr Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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-- Helen Rowland Melizzano I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
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advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
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-- Albert Einstein "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Melizzano
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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-- David Letterman "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Melizzano
