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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein My good intentions are completely lethal.
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machine gun.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Arts and Entertainment Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Arts and Entertainment The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Arts and Entertainment
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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-- Max Beerbohm "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Arts and Entertainment Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Arts and Entertainment
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. 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.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Arts and Entertainment blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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-- Thomas Dekker "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Arts and Entertainment "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Arts and Entertainment The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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