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-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Newspapers
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-- George Santayana Newspapers "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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-- English proverb Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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-- Flannery O'Connor Newspapers To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Elbert Hubbard Newspapers "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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-- Mae West Newspapers
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Newspapers
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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with blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Newspapers "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Newspapers
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
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-- Richard Rosen Newspapers I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Newspapers
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Newspapers The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Newspapers
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Newspapers Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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