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-- Jerry Seinfeld Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- Henry Ford All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- John Adams, dying words Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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--Malcolm X Bands and Artists
The nourishment is palatable.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
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