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-- Albert Einstein "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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-- Anonymous "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- Helen Keller Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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-- Mao Tse-tung It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- G. K. Chesterton If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
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-- W. Somerset Maugham I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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