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-- Dawn French I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Maps and Views Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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forever, Maps and Views If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Maps and Views
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Fran Lebowitz "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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- Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Maps and Views "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Maps and Views
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Maps and Views
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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the same time.
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