Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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-- Author Unknown The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Valencian Community "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- Tom K. Ryan If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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them.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Only the little people pay taxes.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
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of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
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