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-- H. L. Mencken Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Woodworking It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Woodworking
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
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I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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-- Lyn Karol Woodworking Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Woodworking
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-- Adlai Stevenson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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-- Molly Ivins Woodworking
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-- Albert Schweitzer I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Woodworking Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Woodworking Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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-- Sydney Smith Woodworking
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Anon Woodworking For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Woodworking Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
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