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"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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-- H. L. Mencken I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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- Lucille S. Harper There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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- Mark Twain Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
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-- Indian proverb How could they tell?
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Frank W. Woolworth By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
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We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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-- Channing Pollack Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Restaurants and Bars If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Restaurants and Bars One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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- Moses Hadas in a review Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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