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-- Oscar Wilde Industries The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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-- Alvin Toffler When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Industries
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Mark Twain Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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-- Ha Industries Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Niels Bohr Industries
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
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-- Oscar Wilde Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
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-- H. L. Mencken Industries There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- Fred Astaire Industries "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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- Frederick (II) the Great Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Industries A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Industries
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon Industries "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Industries
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
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-- Chinese saying Industries The course of true love never did run smooth.
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-- Tom Lehrer "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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-- Mme de Staël Industries Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken Industries
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous "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 Industries "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Industries
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Industries Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Industries
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Industries Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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