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poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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-- Oscar Wilde Monclassico What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Anonymous When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Monclassico
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Monclassico Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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-- Oscar Wilde Monclassico
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Monclassico "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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-- George Bernard Shaw You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Monclassico
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Monclassico We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Monclassico "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
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-- Jim Backus Monclassico
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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-- Isadora Duncan Monclassico
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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the time.
-- E. B. White Monclassico And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Monclassico Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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These days they more often leave that way.
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-- Pearl Williams The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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