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-- Michel de Montaigne What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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brand new ending.
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- Rudyard Kipling No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous K Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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inspe Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
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Success is just a matter of attitude.
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machi If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Early to rise and early to bed.
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- Mario Andretti The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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more supervision.
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