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outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "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) Autonomous Areas Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
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Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Love is friendship set on fire.
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-- Anonymous Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Autonomous Areas "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
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If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Autonomous Areas Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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-- William Hazlitt He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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