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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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- Samuel Johnson Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
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To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
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-- W. C. Fields If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Work is the curse of the drinking class.
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Andre Gide "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Legal Services And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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-- Gandhi Legal Services Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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-- Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Shirley Temple Black Legal Services Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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-- Tom Lehrer Legal Services
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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-- Harry Truman Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Michel de Montaigne Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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