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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Texel God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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-- Frank Zappa Texel
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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-- Mark Twain "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Texel Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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-- Otto von Bismarck Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Texel
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Texel "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Texel "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Texel
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Texel Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain Texel
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Robert Frost "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
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-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Texel "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Texel
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Texel The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Texel
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Harry Truman "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 Texel
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- Abraham Maslow Texel If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Texel
