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not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
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-- Albert Schweitzer Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- Edgar Allan Poe Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
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-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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- Henry David Thoreau ( Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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-- André Maurois Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
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-- Ha I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
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All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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