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If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- D. H. Lawrence Literature
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that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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-- Anonymous She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
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-- Albert Einstein Literature
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Tryon Edwards I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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-- Anonymous Literature
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
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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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- Napoleon Bonaparte The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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inspe Literature Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- Marcus Aurelius Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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