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-- Anon. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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-- Benjamin Franklin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
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-- Aristotle The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "... 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 I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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- Samuel Johnson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crow S. Maria di Leuca The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith S. Maria di Leuca
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
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-- Lenny Bruce I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur S. Maria di Leuca
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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-- Shecky Greene Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
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-- Abraham Lincoln S. Maria di Leuca
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Sydney Smith S. Maria di Leuca All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) S. Maria di Leuca
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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-- George Clemenceau I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar S. Maria di Leuca
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) S. Maria di Leuca Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
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