It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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.
-- Cybi blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Clubs and Venues "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Clubs and Venues
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clubs and Venues I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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-- Darcy E. Gibbons Clubs and Venues
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Clubs and Venues "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Think off-center." (George Carlin) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Clubs and Venues What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Clubs and Venues
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Clubs and Venues "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Clubs and Venues Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Clubs and Venues
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
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-- Dinah Shore We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Clubs and Venues Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Clubs and Venues Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student Clubs and Venues
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Clubs and Venues Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Who, being loved, is poor?
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