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-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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-- Samuel Johnson Radio They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Radio
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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- Mahatma Gandhi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Radio As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey Radio
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Radio "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) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Radio
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Sydney Smith Radio Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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th Radio Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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-- Shelley Winters "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Radio
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-- John Lyly The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Radio We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Radio
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Radio
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali Radio "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Radio
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-- Adolf Hitler Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
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-- Michel de Montaigne Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Radio In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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