We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber Litija Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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-- Jane Bryant Quinn Litija "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Josh Billings "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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-- Shecky Greene Litija "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
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simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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-- Bernard Baruch "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Litija For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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-- Lucille S. Harper Litija
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Litija The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Michel de Montaigne Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Litija Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Litija In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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