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- Bertrand Russell
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- Dwight L. Moody Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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is a chance."
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-- Al Bernstein Business and Economy "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Business and Economy
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) How could they tell?
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rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Business and Economy
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage is a rest period between romances. Business and Economy To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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