"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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and in that In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Lucille Ball The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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is a chance."
-- Anon. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
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-- Mark Twain By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Travel and Tourism Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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and Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Travel and Tourism
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
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-- G. K. Chesterton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Travel and Tourism
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Woody Allen Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Travel and Tourism