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-- Helen Keller Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
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"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Joan Thompson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Sheet Music Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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-- George Bernard Shaw I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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-- George Bernard Shaw Sheet Music
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Why don't you write books people can read?
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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-- David Letterman You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
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