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give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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-- James Reston Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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-- James Thurber My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. His ignorance is encyclopedic
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-- Bertrand Russell Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
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Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Whatever you are, be a good one.
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-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Massa-Carrara
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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-- Gore Vidal The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- Slavoj Zizek When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- Rebecca West, If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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-- Arthur Godfrey Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Massa-Carrara
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Massa-Carrara Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Massa-Carrara
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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-- Niels Bohr I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
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"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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