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-- Lord Byron Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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-- Oscar Wilde "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Services "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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-- Dean Acheson It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
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-- Will Rogers "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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-- Albert Schweitzer Services Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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-- George Bernard Shaw A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Stephen Covey "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Services Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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-- Colin Powell Services
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-- Niels Bohr Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
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-- William Temple I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little Services "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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-- Phillip Brooks Services
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
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-- Henry James Services
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Services To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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-- William Jennings Bryant "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Services
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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