Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- Mae West Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
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-- Oscar Wilde Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
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- Bill Hirst Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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-- Woody Allen Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
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Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Mark Twain A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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