The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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upon the lev "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- Abraham Lincoln 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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-- P. J. O'Rourke If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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-- Anonymous The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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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-- Vincent Van Gogh Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Financial Services Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- Samuel Butler Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H Financial Services We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Financial Services "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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