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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- David Chambless Goodbye, Everybody!
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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