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-- Anonymous You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Wokingham "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Men have become the tools of their tools.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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-- Oscar Wilde Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu Wokingham "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Wokingham
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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-- Phyllis Diller Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Oscar Wilde Wokingham
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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great riches.
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-- Oscar Wilde Wokingham
Where there is love there is life.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke The average person thinks he isn't.
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I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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is accepted as being self-evident.
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