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-- Shakespeare, William "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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-- Honore de Balzac Financial
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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- unknown Financial Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Buckminster Financial
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Financial
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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-- Benjamin Franklin Financial
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-- Lord Byron Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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-- William Blake Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Financial
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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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- Rudyard Kipling Financial
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Thoreau "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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-- Proverbs 23:7 Financial
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
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-- Mark Twain Financial Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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-- Dinah Shore Financial
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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