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-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- Thomas Carlyle Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
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-- Virginia Woolf Localities "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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-- Russell Baker Localities See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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-- Mike Adams Localities
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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-- Elvis Presley The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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