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It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
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-- Anonymous If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Health
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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-- Simeon Strunsky Health Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Health
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Health Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Health
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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-- Gamaliel Bradford Health
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
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girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
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custom of shaving.
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-- H. L. Mencken "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
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-- Theodore Sturgeon Health "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Health
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Health
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Health
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Robert Browning Health
"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) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Health "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Health
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Health
