The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Only the little people pay taxes.
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-- Fred Astaire Industries
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Industries A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Industries
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Industries
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-- Aldous Huxley Industries
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
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-- B.F. Skinner Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Industries
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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-- Pablo Picasso Industries One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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-- Ayn Rand Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
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is a chance."
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Uncl That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Industries
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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.
-- Lyster I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Industries "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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