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Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Sliema Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Sliema The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Sliema Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Sliema I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. 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