All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY Pawn Brokers We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Pawn Brokers
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-- Albert Einstein Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pawn Brokers And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Pawn Brokers
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-- Oscar Wilde 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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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Pawn Brokers "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pawn Brokers
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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-- Tom Robbins A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Pawn Brokers
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-- Pope John Paul I I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Pawn Brokers "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pawn Brokers
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-- Satchel Paige Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
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-- Cynthia Heimel "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
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-- Jean Ke Pawn Brokers I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Pawn Brokers
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Pawn Brokers "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Pawn Brokers
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- Charlie Chaplin The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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-- Sydney Smith Pawn Brokers You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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-- Bertrand Russell Pawn Brokers
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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-- Colin Powell Pawn Brokers "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pawn Brokers Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Pawn Brokers
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Ernest Rutherford Pawn Brokers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Pawn Brokers
