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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, National Union of Students For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Bernard Baruch Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau National Union of Students
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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-- Anatole France Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Jean Cocteau Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) National Union of Students How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes National Union of Students
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha National Union of Students Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham National Union of Students
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
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-- Benjamin Franklin Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde National Union of Students Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche National Union of Students
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain National Union of Students
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn National Union of Students Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings National Union of Students
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- Virginia Woolf Realism is a corruption of reality.
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"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) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh National Union of Students If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides National Union of Students English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
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