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I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
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-- T. S. Eliot The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
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- Al Capone Barberino di Mugello Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Euripides If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
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-- Woody Allen In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
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And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Barberino di Mugello Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence Assassins!
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-- Charles Evans Hughes You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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