Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
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-- Ed Bluestone "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Libraries
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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-- Modern Maturity There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
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-- Mark Twain Libraries If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Publilius Syrus "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Libraries "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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-- Albert Schweitzer Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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up with software demands My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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-- Russell Baker Libraries blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Such is life.
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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-- Madeleine L'Engle There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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