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-- Gloria Steinem In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Assassins!
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-- Irwin Corey I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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-- Countess of Blessington Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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-- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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-- Henry David Thoreau "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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