The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
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-- Steven Wright UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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-- Anonymous People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Henry Ford Referral Services Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Jean Kerr Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles May you never leave your marriage alive. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Robert Graves "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Referral Services
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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-- Maurice Maeterlink I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Luck is the residue of design.
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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ha The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
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-- Albert Einstein "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
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-- G. K. Chesterton I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
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-- Mark Twain A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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