"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Elayne Boosler A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Two souls with but a single thought,
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"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Entertainment Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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apparently based I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Entertainment Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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difficult.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Entertainment You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Entertainment What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- George Bernard Shaw Entertainment
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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-- Jack Welch I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Entertainment Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Entertainment
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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-- Abbie M. Dale Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Entertainment "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Entertainment
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Entertainment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Entertainment
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Entertainment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Entertainment
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Entertainment
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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-- Benjamin Franklin I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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