Monte Palace - Tropical and Japanese gardens in Monte, Funchal
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"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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- Robert Frost In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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-- George Bus Travel and Tourism
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"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci Travel and Tourism "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Travel and Tourism
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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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-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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tha Travel and Tourism blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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-- Erich Fromm Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
