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-- Paul Tillich Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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-- George Bird Evans Haastrecht "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Haastrecht
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
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- Carl Sagan Haastrecht
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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-- Stephen Leacock Haastrecht One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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-- Vince Lombardi Haastrecht
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-- Peter Oakley What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Haastrecht
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Haastrecht Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Haastrecht
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
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-- St. Francis of Assisi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Haastrecht
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
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