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-- Honore de Balzac Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Radio "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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-- Thomas Edison Radio
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Douglas Adams Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Radio Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Radio
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together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Radio Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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-- Albert Einstein Radio
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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-- William Hazlitt "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Radio
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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-- Elbert Hubbard When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Pablo Picasso Radio A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Radio
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Radio Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Radio
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Radio Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Radio
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Radio "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Radio
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Radio I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Radio
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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expect i Radio Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Radio
