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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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- Frank Lloyd Wright This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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Gracian The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Anonymous Monte Antico If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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distance Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
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-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The first duty of love is to listen.
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Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- Aldous Huxley The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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-- Ken Dodd Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- Rainer Maria Ril The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
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