Masha's Web Cabana - Personal website including information on Macedonian heritage.
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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-- H. L. Mencken Personal Homepages
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Winston Churchill All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Personal Homepages
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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-- Elayne Boosler Personal Homepages The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Homepages
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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out how to do it.
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-- Mark Twain Personal Homepages
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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-- Yogi Berra Personal Homepages "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Personal Homepages
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Personal Homepages "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
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-- Adlai Stevenson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Personal Homepages We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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-- Stephen Leacock Personal Homepages
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Personal Homepages As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Personal Homepages
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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-- Irwin Corey Personal Homepages Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
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This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "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) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "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) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Personal Homepages Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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) Personal Homepages
