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-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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-- Gandhi In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
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-- Clifton Fadiman Travel and Tourism
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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-- Henry James Travel and Tourism Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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-- Woody Allen Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Gen. George I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
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-- Thomas Jones Travel and Tourism In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
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-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton Travel and Tourism Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism
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-- Abraham Lincoln There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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-- Robert Frost "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
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