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-- Michael Meissner Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The average person thinks he isn't.
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-- Chekhov Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
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Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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-- Al Bernstein All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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- Moses Hadas in a review I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Oscar Wilde CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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-- Robert Browning List Fortuyn
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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future crimes.
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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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-- Emily Dickinson, dying words It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Bertrand Russell Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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