"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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sexual Pets The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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-- Vincent Van Gogh Pets
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-- Benjamin Franklin Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- Clive James Pets
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consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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-- Caroline Rhea Pets The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Pets
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-- Bertrand Russell I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pets
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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-- Irwin Sarason Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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-- Mother Teresa Pets I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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-- Publilius Syrus Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Al Bernstein Pets Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Pets
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Mother Teresa Pets You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Pets
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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-- Walter Savage Landor Pets
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Pets Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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