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-- Dr. Strangelove My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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-- Maya Angelou Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
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-- John Ciardi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Repair and Service
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words "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) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- Dave Barry My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- G. M. Trevelyan Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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