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- Mark Twain The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire Financial Services Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Financial Services Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Financial Services If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Financial Services
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Financial Services All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Financial Services
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Financial Services Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Financial Services
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Financial Services Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Financial Services
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Thought is action in rehearsal.
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-- Anne Bradstreet A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Financial Services "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Financial Services
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
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that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Financial Services
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Financial Services "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Financial Services Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Financial Services
