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- Plato The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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-- Robertson Davies I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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I married beneath me. All women do.
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-- Hector Louis Berlioz If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Frank W. Woolworth The first duty of love is to listen.
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-- Aldous Huxley The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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-- WARREN BEATTY "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A witty saying proves nothing.
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-- Steven Wright I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
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-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau Arts and Entertainment Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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- General George S. Patton The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Arts and Entertainment
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-- Yogi Berra The west wasn't won on salad.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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