Halmagiu Land - Includes details about its geography, its climate, a short history, information about traditions, habits and cultural monuments.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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-- Albert Einstein The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Helen Roland He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
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-- John Heisman Halmagiu
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
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-- Epicurus Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Halmagiu
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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-- Lucille Ball The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett Halmagiu
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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the fl "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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. Halmagiu Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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-- Walter Prager Halmagiu I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- English proverb "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 Halmagiu
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Halmagiu "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Halmagiu
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Halmagiu Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Halmagiu
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Halmagiu "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Halmagiu
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Halmagiu The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Halmagiu
