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-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Chambers of Commerce God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Chambers of Commerce
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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-- Oscar Wilde Chambers of Commerce Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
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-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- William Jennings Bryant Chambers of Commerce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- W. Somerset Maugham You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Chambers of Commerce
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Chambers of Commerce "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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-- John Allston Chambers of Commerce
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
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what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Chambers of Commerce I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Chambers of Commerce
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Chambers of Commerce Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chambers of Commerce
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Chambers of Commerce Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Chambers of Commerce
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Chambers of Commerce If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Man and wife make one fool. Chambers of Commerce
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-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Chambers of Commerce To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Chambers of Commerce For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Chambers of Commerce
