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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
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-- Gore Vidal "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Metal Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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-- Colin Powell Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Metal
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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-- Robert Benchley My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Metal
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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-- Wernher von Braun Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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-- Grover Cleveland "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Metal
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Metal There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Metal
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Clarence Darrow Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Metal
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Metal Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Metal
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Metal An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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-- Paul Valery Metal
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- John F. Kennedy Metal Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Metal
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Metal The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Metal
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon Metal This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Metal
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
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