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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Health
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Health
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- Oscar Wilde Health Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Douglas Adams Health
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Health Nobody ever died of laughter.
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-- Woodrow Wyatt Health
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Fred Allen Health
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Health
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-- Albert Einstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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-- Robert L. Stevenson Health Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Dorothy Parker Health
