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-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
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-- Marianne Williamson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
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[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Thought is action in rehearsal.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Vote early and vote often.
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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Anonymous The multitude is always in the wrong.
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