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-- Dave Barry Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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-- George Bernard Shaw Books
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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-- Aldous Huxley Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Books
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
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-- Robert Boynton Books The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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-- Virginia Woolf Books
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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-- Ernest Hemingway Books Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
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-- Thomas Jefferson Books What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Sacha Guitry "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Books You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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